Visual Arts
Anne Weckert
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
'It is often remarked upon that my work is extremely personal, stemming directly from interactions with friends and lovers. An unsolicited celebration, that is sometimes joyous and eagerly received, but occasionally invasive or unknown. By taking someone's special "things" or the special "things" I have shared and embodying in them in a work that does not always remain with me, am I plagerising their truths? Is a perversion into faux art-like experiences occurring?
This series from the Milking the Muse body of work is based on three months of email communications, an unsophisticated and naive analysis of human interaction, and the norms promoted by our society. "I cannot know if it is sad, beautiful, compulsive, twee ...,but I feel no strangeness at the thought of fabricating you an insulating scarf from my hair".Anne Weckert, 2005
BIO
Anne Weckert is a twenty-one year old visual artist and curator. In 2004 Anne completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at The South Australian School of Art, UniSA. Anne coordinated the school's graduate exhibition, and worked as an intern at the Experimental Art Foundation compiling a study on the organisation's audience profile. Upon graduation Anne received the Harry P Gill Memorial medal for applied arts and was chosen as one of 12 artists from SASA to participate in the prestigious Helpmann Academy Graduates Exhibition. In 2005 Anne was invited to join the Downtown Artspace management committee, appointed to the position of Gallery Coordinator at Urban Cow Studio, and began working with SASA Gallery Coordinator Vivonne Thwaites on the coordination of a temporary public artwork to coincide with the 2006 Adelaide Bank Festival of the Arts exhibition Writing a Painting.
In August 2005 Anne became an access tenant at Gray Street Workshop. She has recently exhibited work in the Dame Nancy Buttfield Award for the Decorative Arts and the Downtown Artspace curated exhibition "SEX" . In May 2007 Anne will host her first solo exhibition Milking the Muse at the Urban Cow Gallery, of which this work is a preview.
Anne has exhibited as part of Carclew's Fifth Floor project.
