Photographer: Cassandra Hogan
Capturing elements of light, water and colour; shifting dreamscapes; silent, sensuous and cellular in form; Edney works spontaneously, blending colour and creating composition intuitively for her drawings (or are they paintings?) and videos.
She is seeking to represent a mutually beneficial human relationship with the planet, and the multiple other-than-human species who share it with us. It's a thing beyond the intellect, coming from our ancient instinctual selves, and beyond the ken of most contemporary urban humans. It occurs at an elemental subconscious level. The urgency is to clarify this reciprocal and respectful interaction, as our human responsibility, before everything goes irretrievably to hell in a hand basket.
Her research is anchored in phenomenology, cultural ecology, myth and story; exploring ancestral memory in DNA that informs our cellular biophysical human relationship with earth.
Edney's diversified creative practice, includes many years as a Community Cultural Development artist and director, and gives her work a pedagogical influence. The resulting interactions with many disparate communities have provided her with an encompassing and multifarious awareness.
She is represented in private and public collections including the Tröllaskagi School, Olafsfjörður, Iceland, City of Yarra Collection, Museum of the Riverina, Macquarie University, and the Abbotsford Convent.
Annie has shown her work locally, nationally and internationally, including Anima Mundi, Venice, 2017 + 2019, the Istanbul Design Biennial 2016, Melbourne Art Loop, 2016 + 2017, curated by MARS Gallery and on Chin Chin's projection wall, Flinders Lane, Melbourne 2017, the Burren College of Art, Ireland 2017, Skammdegi Festival, Olafsfjörður, Iceland 2019.
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