Biography

Anne’s 40 year practice encompasses painting, drawing, prints, artist books, installation, curation, and large scale translucent hand painted images, sometimes soaring to seven metres high.

In response to escalating environmental pressures brought about by human induced climate change, Anne’s recent practice focuses firmly on our relationship to our environment, in particular Melbourne’s waterways and forests.

Informed by her PhD research into pervasive Western dualist thinking that symbolically stems from the Garden of Eden origin myth, Anne seeks to collapse artificial dichotomies between nature and culture, and deep rooted belief in human dominance and dominion that have underscored an era of the anthropocene and global ecological degradation. 

Through the materiality of her tactile imagery, gestural mark making, contrasts of pigment, and the shifting light and shadows that flicker through her translucent surfaces, Anne invites awareness of human interconnectedness with our natural surrounds, engendering a sense of awe and humility.

Since the 1980s Anne’s art has featured in a range of solo, curated and prize exhibitions, nationally and internationally, including commercial galleries such as Tolarno Galleries, Pinacotheca, and public institutions including National Gallery of Victoria, Plimsoll Gallery Hobart, MADA Faculty Gallery Monash University, University of Northampton Bristol UK, Gallery Arka Vilnius Lithuania, Sung Shin Women’s University Seoul Korea, and Anhui University Hefei China.

Anne has successfully staged a number of touring group shows and multi-sensory collaborations with musicians, composers, sound and projection artists in public spaces, eliciting emotional responses from diverse audiences as they become immersed in these evocative environments.

Anne’s paintings, drawings, prints and artists books have also been acquired by numerous public and private collections around Australia, including State Library of Queensland, Monash University, Swan Hill Regional Gallery and the National Gallery of Victoria.