Anna Pike artist talk - Sunday 02/04/2023 10.30am (GMT)
We're really excited that this month we will be joined by ArtScientific member Anna Pike, who will be taking us through her current practice as she comes to the end of Level 2 on her BSc Painting Degree with OCA.
Anna's art practice has grown out of an interest in materiality and decay within the biological world, relating to her former career as a biologist. She collects traces of what once was. These can be physical, such as pieces of skeleton, a rock or a fragment of rusted metal, or something more ephemeral such as a transient mark left in the sand at low tide. These traces act as mementos of a different time and place. By collecting them she links them to the present, creating both spatial and temporal narratives. Her work with the slime mould Physarum polycephalum is an enquiry into trace and memory: exploring ideas of absence of presence (or indeed presence of absence), complexity, fragmentation, change, and ultimately what it means to remember.
Find out more here:
https://painting2exploringmedia.wordpress.com
@annapikestudio
https://www.instagram.com/annapikestudio
ArtScientific members should now have the email invite, and there will be a reminder at the end of the week. Please let me know at katrina525950@oca.ac.uk if you haven't received these prior to the talk so I can send you the link.
Looking forward to seeing you then.