Works
A selection of projects spanning light installations, hybrid sculptural paintings, interactive digital environments, and video works exploring themes of memory, motion, and embodied experience.
Lift
2025 • Interactive video and motion-capture installation
Lift began through a deeply reflective process, revisiting my own history as a dancer across diverse styles, including classical ballet. My conversations with former Australian Ballet Principal Artist Lisa Bolte became central to the work's development. We spoke about ballet not only as a technique but as a lived experience—how it shapes the body, imagination, and sense of self over time. Lisa features in the video as a mature and seasoned artist, bringing a depth of experience rarely seen in representations of ballet. Her presence challenges narrow ideas of who gets to perform ballet and how it is seen. Her dance voice—both literal and metaphorical—guided the work as we considered how the form might evolve beyond the traditional image of the ballerina. Lift is an interactive video and motion-capture work that invites audiences to experience a sensation often hidden within the form: the feeling of weightlessness. Ballet trains the body to lift, extend, and reach beyond its limits—calling on imagination as much as physical strength. Through performance, editing, and movement, Lift draws on embodied memory and lived experience. It invites reflection on how the language of ballet might continue to move—through time, through bodies, and through the traces it leaves behind. Reflection by Lisa Bolte Working with Anne, whose creative ideas are so distinctive and evocative, invited me into a deeply collaborative process at a pivotal time in my life—when I had stepped away from my professional career with The Australian Ballet. It was a transition, and Anne's vision offered me a new way to explore movement, stillness, and presence. When I look at the video, I feel an endless, quiet sense of gratitude. The work holds space for stillness and reflection. It captures something both fragile and powerful in the passage of time. When I first met Anne Scott Wilson, she was intent on creating art that embodied metamorphosis. From the beginning, she spoke of ideas and images that evoked the Dying Swan or a butterfly slowly disintegrating. There was beauty in the decay, in the waiting, in the tension between timelessness and fragility. Her ideas touched on the vulnerability of being, and of life itself. It has captured the imagination, it holds a suspended moment that seems to go on forever, a poetic meditation on presence and impermanence. Featured in "Beyond the Ballerina" at Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, curated by Dr Megan Evans and Olivia Poloni (10 October – 21 December 2025).
Spin into Being
2022 • Video projection, hybrid photography, VR installation
Spin into Being delves into the archive in a reinterpretation of themes and footage that have foregrounded the artist's work for decades. While the ocean is perpetually in a rhythmic cycle, it is also in a constant state of flux. From moment to moment, it is never the same, continually evolving and changing in both its physical state and appearance. Like bodies of water, the physical body is also in a state of perpetual permutation, both in spirit and anatomy. In this immersive photographic and video installation, the body is juxtaposed with and in nature. In capturing water in the ocean in the video work, Wilson symbiotically synchronizes her movements with the cadence of tidal motion. This synchronicity and the resulting shroud of water around her fuse body and nature. This elemental and metaphysical hybridity distills time, water, light and motion into a primal pulse. These elements, while ubiquitous, are fundamental to all life and material existence. Yet, in each manifestation, they are different, never appearing or combining in quite the same fashion. Water and air—so very commonplace, they hardly attract attention—yet they vouchsafe our very existence. Light and Movement In the installation, Spin into Being wraps viewers in light, with reflected tessellations enveloping them on ceiling, walls and the floor. The encompassing, ebbing pulse of kaleidoscopic water is furthered by the rhythmic gesture of collecting and dispersing water in the video piece. This translates to the physical motion of spinning that produces the photographic images. The centrifugal thus becomes dually generative. The vast expanse of the natural world in which the artist moves body and camera becomes condensed into lines that run throughout the images. These linear wisps of light convey a profound eloquence as the entropy of the world is purified into a single line. These lines of light echo the horizon line of the ocean. At the boundary of water and sky, one is reflected into the other, just as the photographs mirror boundaries between the physical world and its intangible inscription through light. Virtual Reality Experience In the VR piece, viewers are invited to delve further into this elemental synergy. Within virtual space, the viewer is able to feel what it is like to be inside the camera and experience the elemental alchemy that is photography. In this space, the body is transcended, becoming part of the atomic interplay. The dialogue between pieces in Spin into Being reflects on cycles of aging and existence. In the mark making with light, there is an affirmation of the vitality of our existence and cohesion in the natural world. Yet, there is also a profound humility in this realization that our existence is but one small iteration in the enduring, omnipresence of nature. The earth, ocean and sky synthesized in the horizon have existed long before us and shall continue to do so in an endless expanse long after we cease to be. Catalogue essay by Anna Shimshak. Solo exhibition at Five Walls Gallery, Footscray (March 2-19, 2022). This body of work includes photographic prints, video projection, bespoke screen and Oculus Rift VR work.