Annabel Juliet Eyres (born 4 February 1965) is a British international rower and artist. Annabel Eyres was educated at the

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in London and Bryanston School in Dorset. She then studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art,

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, where she was a student at Pembroke College. During this time, she rowed for the Pembroke College Boat Club and the Oxford University Women's Boat Club, competing in the Oxford and Cambridge Women's Boat Race. She also rowed for the

Tideway Scullers School Tideway Scullers School is a rowing club on the Tideway of the River Thames next to Chiswick Bridge in Chiswick, London. The club previously held the headship for the Head of the River Race (2009), the largest UK eights event, and the senior sq ...

and the

Upper Thames Rowing Club Upper Thames Rowing Club is an English rowing club. It has a large clubhouse at Remenham in Berkshire, on the River Thames near the town of Henley-on-Thames and is set back by its lawn frontage from the first half of the course of Henley Royal ...

. Eyres competed in the women's double sculls event at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

. She was part of the coxless pairs with Joanne Gough that won the national title rowing for the British squad at the 1990 National Championships. She also completed in the

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women's

quadruple sculls A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated 4x, is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each hand. Rac ...

final and the

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women's

double sculls A double scull is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly ...

final. As well as rowing, Eyres has been an artist, producing prints and also paper cuts and

collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

s, as well as painting, especially of rowing-related subjects. She helped form the company Rock the Boat, selling rowing-related items, including artworks. She has exhibited regularly in London, including at the Riverside Gallery, and Oxford, including as part of

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. Annabel Eyres is married with a family.

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Annabel Eyres website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Eyres, Annabel 1965 births Living people 20th-century English women artists 21st-century English women artists Rowers from Greater London Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford Alumni of the Ruskin School of Art Artists from London British female rowers English women painters English printmakers People educated at Bryanston School People educated at the City of London School People educated at the City of London School for Girls Olympic rowers for Great Britain Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Women printmakers Women collage artists