‘Art is a full-time, absorbing occupation and a way of life for me’, says Ann Noel, a British born artist living in Berlin, Germany. Every aspect of her daily living experience becomes possible source material for a continuing voyage of creation and discovery, whether it be the trash picked up off the street, the words in the diary she writes faithfully each morning or the souvenirs and keepsakes given to her by participants in her ongoing exchange project “GIVE &TAKE.”

In the exhibition currently showing at the CEAC Gallery in Xiamen, Ann Noel displays these objects and the stories she was told about them in the interviews she has had with people over the last few weeks. In addition to this there are drawings of her own, which she made during her art residency in Xiamen, overworked pages from the journal she has kept and a large work on paper in which painted and collaged elements come together in a colorful celebration of our common co-existence, all made ‘with a little help from my friends.’ (Lennon and McCartney.)

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