Artist Statement
I draw inspiration from people, imagining their stories and lives. Individuals' private histories and thoughts, their secret and not so secret passions, are food for my practice. Objects are like people, have clandestine lives and sagas, revealing their owners' aspirations, fetishes, and fears.
I wander through the internet, books, personal and journalistic photos. Objects, both functional and non-functional, are sourced from museums, opportunity shops and in the home. The ordinary is quite extraordinary. There is no hierarchy within the object or image world; each thing has intrinsic value beyond its economic one.
Then I draw; it is immediate and clarifies things. It literally draws out the gist of my enquiry. Making is a conversation between the object, the viewer and me. It makes the intangible, tangible.
As my work develops, so does my relationship with the subject, changing my attitude towards it. I may be seduced or become more empathetic to the story the object or thing holds. I find beauty in articles that I may have read; they transform from a casual interest to engagement and then, total seduction. Or they become more monstrous and ridiculous.
I find different ways of articulating my idea using different materials and going out on a limb with my skills.
BIO
A multi-disciplinary artist who works across ceramics, mixed media and drawing. She has a Master's in Ceramics from the National Art School in Sydney, Australia.
Her ceramic pieces, both two and three-dimensional, have developed from drawing and printmaking. She has been exhibiting consistently since 2006, with a strong history of working with independent spaces.
Anne grapples with mythology, identity, family history and loss, exploring the potential of objects and images to act as repositories for both known and unknown pasts. We make myths from our histories and tell stories to ourselves to make sense of the world or make nonsense of it all.
Her subjects are mined from mythology, migration and observations of daily life. In her imagination, they are all intertwined.
Some recent achievements have been a solo exhibition with Tiliqua Tiliqua Gallery, Sydney and The Sydney Contemporary Works on Paper. Anne was awarded a residency at the KHB artist Residency, Berlin, September 2025 and Burnt Dirt Residency, Wollongong, Australia, 2024.
She has been a finalist in the Perry Drawing Prize, the North Queensland Ceramic Art Awards, and Nth Sydney Art Prize. An article published about my work in The Journal Australian Ceramics, I Come with Baggage, 2020. Anne was awarded the Kil-n-it Ceramics Art Award- Kil-n-it Ceramic Studios- Sydney, 2019
Shoalhaven Contemporary, Maitland, Rookwood Cemetery ‘Art Prize Hidden’ Sculpture art prize and the Hutchins Drawing Prize, Tasmania. I have been a recipient of an Art Start Grant, Australia Council and the Vytlacil Residency in New York (2012). My work is held in private collections both in Australia and abroad.