Anne Graham

Anne Graham’s research focuses on investigations of identity and space. When she first moved to NSW she lived in central Sydney and her installations often responded to the underbelly of the city, the in-between places, the untended spaces between buildings occupied by transient visitors. She transformed these unheimlich places into places for interaction, eating, talking, and forming small communities. Since 2010 she has lived in Kanimbla Valley in regional NSW and this place is now informing her work. She has the time to listen to the sounds, observe the skies, look at the extraordinary colours of this landscape as the weather and the seasons change. She has also become aware of the urgent need to protect this extraordinary place. She is hopeful that an aesthetic understanding through art works and a critical and social movement can turn the damage around.

‘The Lost City’ is a response to endangered Pagodas of The Lost City located close to Lithgow. The carved sandstone is beautiful; it resonates with the subliminal suggestion of past glory and of power lying in ruin. The softer organic layers of dyed felted wool are slowly engulfing the stone; they echo the stratas evident in the landscape of the Pagoda Country. Courtesy – Kronenberg, Mais, Wright