Anna’s sculpture practice uses speculation and story-telling to imagine a transformed, equitable and biodiverse future Earth where posthumans co-exist with hybrid creatures who are amalgamations of plant, fungi, animal, e-waste and space debris, all of which swirl around in their bizarre DNA.
Anna’s recent MFA degree show project at the Slade, The Future Museum of the Past, was a ‘planodiorama’ (a diorama inside which the visitor can wander) of sculptures, with elements of sound, video, performance and writing.
Anna tries to use natural or discarded materials, cooking up biomaterials out of seaweed, vegetable glycerine, raw sheep’s wool and food dyes, and drying them in a dehydrator. They are used to create membranes for the sculptures. Sticks and branches from my garden form the armatures of my work, and cardboard-mâché the nodes holding everything together. E-waste is inserted into all sculptures.
The environment is Anna’s main concern. She investigates the idea of hope and its importance at this time of planetary degradation and loss, envisioning positive futures. For Anna, hope includes energy, action and fight, and counteracts dystopian narratives which produce paralysis and despair.
Sentience on Green Screen
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