Anna Masters
I am a multi-disciplinary artist with a practice including mixed-media, installation and social works. My practice is an exploration of the connections that are born between time, place and experience, and how these shape our sense of place in the world. The works are an examination of the legacy of the moment, the chance encounter, the fleeting emotion - they ask us to understand the world not by object, place or person, but by the relationships we build with them through often small, unconsidered and momentary interactions.
Through an examination of time and place, I explore the ways in which we navigate our physical and social landscapes, and how this process serves to construct narratives about our individual and communal identities. My mixed-media and installation works serve to deconstruct - and reconstruct - our material surroundings; a reimagining of object and material to create new possibilities in both the physical and temporal landscape. Meanwhile, my public and participatory artworks challenge the status quo and common wisdom of our relationships with community, land and place.
Represented by Cube Gallery, London and Galeries Bartoux, France.
Awards
Arts Council England: Grants for the Arts 2014
Royal Opera House: Creative Connections 2013-14
Exhibitions
2018
Suspended Animation, solo exhibition, 45 Park Lane, London
Variations18, group exhibition, gallery@oxo, London
2016
Flux: Temporal Suspense, joint exhibition, DegreeArt, London
Variations16, group exhibition, gallery@oxo, London
2015
Variations, group exhibition, gallery@oxo, London
2014
Time is Now, solo exhibition, Strand Gallery, LondonAffordable Art Fair, Hampstead
Emerging Realities, group exhibition, Craft Central, London
2013
Emerging Realities: Menier Gallery, London
Metamorphosis, Craft Central, London
Earlier Exhibitions
The Other Exhibition, YU Gallery,Glamorgan
One Mile: The Parlour Gallery, London
Throwaway World: 20-21 Arts Centre, Lincs
Summer Show: Architect’s Gallery, London
Commissions
Elephant Parade National Tour, 2013
City of London Festival: Street Pianos, 2012
The Big Egg Hunt, London, 2012
Jungle City: Edinburgh City Centre, 2011
Elephant Parade: London, 2010
Education
Birkbeck, University of London: MA Arts Policy and Management: Distinction
Maplim: Arts and Curating NVQ
Staffordshire University: PGC Fine Art: Merit
Staffordshire University: BA (Hons) Fine Art: First Class
Kent Institute of Art And Design: BTEC National Diploma: Art and Design