About
Artist Statement
Within her practise, Anna reflects upon how the human body is perceived in contemporary western society and how it is being shaped by rapidly advancing technologies and medicine. She is interested in how our contemporary lifestyle may lead to a sense of disconnected-ness between ourselves and the flesh of the body and a deterioration of the intuitive understanding a person has of their body. Responding to this, Anna makes work through a variety of media where she can fragment and abstract the body, to emphasise a sense of the unknown and increase ambiguity.
Anna explores the internal body both through the digital realm, using microscopic and radiological imagery, and as physical and material flesh, body and skin. These digital avenues of work form tensions with more raw and intimate values that are linked to life directly through touch and material. These contrasting approaches to making and visualising attempt to articulate the relationship between the organic and synthetic body that moves between conflict and balance.
Her work aims to question the notions of the tangible and intangible in relation to human experience and to stimulate the sensory body through processes of vision and touch.
Education
2017 - 2020 University of Brighton, First-class honours degree in Fine Art Printmaking.
2016 - 2017 Stillorgan College of Further Education, Art distinction.
Shows & Exhibitions
2020 - Visions Exhibition, Gander Galllery
https://www.gandergallery.com/visions-exhibition
2020 - Digital Touch, Conscious Isolation platform
https://www.instagram.com/consciousisolation/
2020 - Art & Design Virtual Graduate Show, University of Brighton
https://artandmediagraduateshow.brighton.ac.uk
2019 - (IM)MATERIAL, Grand Parade, University of Brighton
Features:
2020 - House Letters Issue 2: Absence and Presence
https://issuu.com/houseletters/docs/house_letters_2_absence_and_presence_august_2020_i
2020 - Brighton Graduate blogs
https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/aadm/2020/06/11/graduates-2020-anna-mays-printmaking/