About

Exploring Light,
Movement, and
Embodied Experience

My practice spans immersive light installations, hybrid sculptural paintings, and interactive digital environments. Working at the intersection of technology and phenomenological experience, I create works that explore themes of memory, motion, and imagination.

Originally trained as a dancer, I am particularly attuned to the dichotomy between the imminence of light and the elasticity of time at the moment of capture. In my work, light becomes the focus of a meditation on transcendence, through a hyperawareness of the body. By performing the moment of photographic capture as a negotiation with the sublime, I draw on a tradition that seeks release from the body into eternity.

I have worked extensively nationally and internationally, with exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Italy, Austria, Hong Kong, and the UK. Using primitive and hi-end digital photographic methods, I deconstruct the virtual to haul it back into the physical. In a punk DIY aesthetic, the works use a variety of approaches to intervene in the photographic act, where the camera, its technology, hardware and software are considered an extension of the body's intelligence.

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Anne's quest is deeply philosophic, aesthetic, precise and through this, a search for something hard to pin down. I think this is a profound illumination that can be applied to anything we know is there but cannot or do not want to acknowledge. In this understanding Anne's work is deeply humane.

Jill Orr

Education

PhD Fine Art
Monash University, Melbourne

BA (Hons) Painting
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Selected Awards & Residencies

  • Australia Council for the Arts development grant
  • Creative Victoria development grant
  • Bowness Photography Prize Finalist
  • Substation Contemporary Art Prize Finalist
  • NAVA Carstairs Bundanon Artist Residency, 2015
  • Australia Council Residency, Liverpool UK
  • Australia Council, Banff Residency
  • Blake Prize Finalist
  • Can Serrat Artist Residency, Spain
  • Ian Potter Emerging Artist Grant

Selected Publications & Texts

  • The Biophilic Effect: Hidden living patterns within the dance of light, Unesco Observatory, University of Melbourne, 2018
  • Technology as collaborator in somatic photographic practice, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practice vol. 8, Intellect Books, 2016
  • Improvisation in visual art practice using a photographic process, Brolga issue 41, Australian Dance Council
  • Wilson, A. S. (2026). A ghost in the machine. In M. W. Azeem (Ed.), Human rights in the age of drones: Critical perspectives on post-9/11 literature, film and art. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08191-9
  • Texts on work by Sean Redmond, Anna Shimshak, Ouyang Yu, Will Johncock, Elizabeth Day, Melissa Bianca Amore

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