About

Anneka French is a writer, editor and curator based in the Black Country, West Midlands, UK.

She works for art publishers Anomie and Hurtwood as Project Editor and contributes to publications including Art Quarterly, 1000 Words, Burlington Contemporary and Photomonitor. Recent commissions include those for Alexander Berggruen Gallery, Photoworks+, Grain Projects, TACO! and Fire Station Artists’ Studios. She has worked on publications including Turner Prize 2021, Kathryn Maple: A Year of Drawings (2023) and the forthcoming The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 3 (2024), Tang Shuo: Shadows of Boulder Hill (2024), Raghav Babbar: Indian Summer (2024) and a monograph on Susie Hamilton (2024).

Anneka is an independent curator currently working with Coventry Biennial. She spent four years as Co-ordinator and then Director at New Art West Midlands (CVAN) and spent six years as Editorial Manager of contemporary art magazine this is tomorrow. Anneka has worked at art galleries including Tate Modern, Ikon, The New Art Gallery Walsall and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

Email: anneka.french@hotmail.co.uk
Telephone: 07718 205519
Instagram: @anneka.french