Artist Statement
I make artwork to consider how to access and be in the world by considering how my perceived surroundings reflect my own limited perspective. I am interested in what is impossible to access, what escapes certainty, and the idea that something cannot be known definitively or exclusively from a singular point of view.
My work is concerned with what is difficult to know due to change, distance, infinite complexity or limited perspective. A lot of my work explores observation and measurement in relationships with things: rocks, trees, asteroids, lakes. I look to the edges, surfaces, and measures of distance as a place to comprehend. I use data, I make drawings and objects, I work in multiples, and I make short videos that loop.
Recent work explores a hollow feeling, a restlessness, a certain lacking. I explore the tools I use, thinking deeply about working with digital technology, and what it means to use measurement tools to create artwork. Overall, I am driven to make artwork as a means to change, to grow, and to deepen my understanding of the world and myself within it.
Professional Experience
Anne has been supported by numerous research and production grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Nova Scotia, and the Council for the Arts at MIT. In 2012, Fulbright Canada awarded her a scholarship to study at MIT. She was awarded the 2018 Nova Scotia Emerging Artist Recognition award. In 2016, she was the first artist to receive the Emerging Atlantic Artist in Residence from the Hnatyshyn Foundation, funded through the support of the Harrison McCain Foundation. This program included a two month residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and a month long national speaking tour across Canada.
In 2020, she was nominated for a Sobey Art Award. In 2015, MIT awarded her first place for the Wiesner award and the Schnitzer Art award. She was shortlisted for the Marl Media Arts award in 2016. Anne's work is in the collection of the Nova Scotia Art Bank and the MSVU Art Gallery. She has sat on juries for the Canada Council, Arts Nova Scotia and the Banff Centre.
Education
In 2015, on a Fulbright scholarship, Anne completed her graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received a Masters of Science in the program of Art, Culture and Technology, studying with Joan Jonas, Renée Green, Rosalind Williams, Antoni Muntadas and others. At MIT, her work received numerous awards and recognition in local publications.
Previous to these studies, she received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree (with a major in Intermedia) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (NSCAD). She worked for five years at NSCAD as a multimedia technician.
She has been awarded residencies at the School of Visual Art (SVA) in NYC, USA (2020), the Canada Council International Residency Grant to study in Paris, France (2016), and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2016).
Exhibitions
In 2019 and 2020 her work was curated by Sarah Fillmore of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia into three major group exhibitions across Guangdong, China. She attended the openings and spoke at two of these three exhibitions.
Her work has been shown internationally in Canada, UK, USA, China, Germany, and Australia. Her work was written about in Canadian Art Magazine by Christiana Myers (2019) and Sam Cotter (2017). Her written research from the Banff centre for Arts and Creativity was published in Kapsula Magazine for the ANAMALITY edition. Her practice has been publicized in the Chronicle Herald, MIT News, Plan 88, The Coast, CBC Information Morning, and Visual Arts News. Her work has been included in print catalogues from the Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Struts Galley, He Xiangning Art Museum, and the Center for Art Tapes.