Annie WardArtist, Maker
I create a broad spectrum of work from paintings to altered books and installations. My work revolves around concepts of domesticity and kinship as well as the gendered nature of history. The attraction of this area of research is its capacity to reclaim attention for the ‘unseen’, the deliberately forgotten, the misplaced and the over-looked. Exploring the lives of my own female ancestors is a way to contextualise and situate my own present experiences in time and space. We all build our identities through affinities or resemblances or by engaging with one another’s life narrative. Contemplating family history centres the imagination and emphasizes the important role which story-telling has to play in connecting us all to one another in the present day.
|Location||Lyme Regis, South West|
|Activities||Participatory projects, Private commissions|
|Artforms / type of project||Book Works, Drawing, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting|
|Tags||paper, paper casting, history, memory, narrative, still life, feminism, Domestic, painting, drawing|