Anna Reynolds

HOLE
$2,400

I made this image to pay my respects and to remember the two strong Milkwood trees that were destroyed in the wake of the proposed new Charles Darwin University city campus. This is the hole dug in preparation, for the construction that followed. A metaphor perhaps, for mooching around feeling sad for old trees cut down in the past, that are being cut down today, and will be cut down in the future.

Mixed media
100 x 145 x 7cm

Artist Statement: Anna Reynolds art practice is full-on and full-time
Graduating with a Masters by Research at Charles Darwin University in 2019 positioned Reynolds as an innovator exploring digital print on textile. More recently, an extended Churchill Fellowship has taken Reynolds across India, Scotland, Berlin, Austria and Mallorca, researching art and textile. Relationship to the natural environment and concern for its demise are often an undercurrent and force in her creative practice. Textile has specific ecological dialogue woven to its core, but the transformative lens found at demolition and construction sites still inspires Reynolds to re-imagine gritty anti-human flora deprived landscapes.