ARTIST BIO
How is it that everything coexists without cohering? Anna's work is a compound of attempts that originate from autobiographical experiences, memories and encounters. Anna is driven by a curiosity about the meaning of living in today's world, where contradictions and ambiguity prevail. Through a Feminist New Materialist lens, she touches upon themes of domesticity, ecology, transformation and play. Through non-doing, she creates nonsculptures.
By listening to the whispers of materials and objects, the artist becomes a facilitator and spellcaster. She joins and assembles pieces together to unravel and decipher their inner, invisible mechanisms. Working with humble materials and employing a variety of craft processes, her artworks often embody domestic objects and a scale that resonates with the familiar.
The partially ephemeral quality of her materials prevents the works from becoming mere products, but rather transforms them into creatures with earthly features that participate in the cycle of life. They are born, exist, and eventually fade away.
Inspired by the Arte Povera movement and the artist's childhood memories of enchantment, her work encompasses food waste, latex, bio-yarn, metal, and found objects, who, through different processes and forces, take on animate qualities. Anna's nonsculptures are hybrid species between artwork and life.
Artist video interview (by Nicola Roper)
MA Degree Show article (by Cheri Allcock)