Approved: 18.08.2014

Anna Masters

Artist, Maker

Approved: 18.08.2014

I am a multi-disciplinary artist with a practice including mixed-media, installation and social works. My practice is an exploration of the connections that are born between time, place and experience, and how these shape our sense of place in the world. The works are an examination of the legacy of the moment, the chance encounter, the fleeting emotion - they ask us to understand the world not by object, place or person, but by the relationships we build with them through often small, unconsidered and momentary interactions.

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Artist Statement

I am a multi-disciplinary artist with a practice including mixed-media, installation and social works. My practice is an exploration of the connections that are born between time, place and experience, and how these shape our sense of place in the world. The works are an examination of the legacy of the moment, the chance encounter, the fleeting emotion - they ask us to understand the world not by object, place or person, but by the relationships we build with them through often small, unconsidered and momentary interactions.

Through an examination of time and place, I explore the ways in which we navigate our physical and social landscapes, and how this process serves to construct narratives about our individual and communal identities. My mixed-media and installation works serve to deconstruct - and reconstruct - our material surroundings; a reimagining of object and material to create new possibilities in both the physical and temporal landscape. Meanwhile, my public and participatory artworks challenge the status quo and common wisdom of our relationships with community, land and place.

CV & Education

Represented by Cube Gallery, London and Galeries Bartoux, France.

Awards

Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts              2014

Royal Opera House: Creative Connections           2013-14

 

Exhibitions

2018

Suspended Animation, solo exhibition, 45 Park Lane, London

Variations18, group exhibition, gallery@oxo, London

2016

Flux: Temporal Suspense, joint exhibition, DegreeArt, London

Variations16, group exhibition, gallery@oxo, London

2015

Variations, group exhibition, gallery@oxo, London

2014

Time is Now, solo exhibition, Strand Gallery, LondonAffordable Art Fair, Hampstead

Emerging Realities, group exhibition, Craft Central, London

2013

Emerging Realities: Menier Gallery, London

Metamorphosis, Craft Central, London

Earlier Exhibitions

The Other Exhibition, YU Gallery,Glamorgan

One Mile: The Parlour Gallery, London

Throwaway World: 20-21 Arts Centre, Lincs

Summer Show: Architect’s Gallery, London

 

Commissions

Elephant Parade National Tour, 2013

City of London Festival: Street Pianos, 2012

The Big Egg Hunt, London, 2012

Jungle City: Edinburgh City Centre, 2011

Elephant Parade: London, 2010

 

Education

Birkbeck, University of London: MA Arts Policy and Management: Distinction

MaplimArts and Curating NVQ

Staffordshire University: PGC Fine Art: Merit

Staffordshire University: BA (Hons) Fine Art: First Class

Kent Institute of Art And Design: BTEC National Diploma: Art and Design