Anne Numont: upcoming artist-in-residence

Anne Numont with her work, Identity Ecology v1.1. – 4.0, 2019 at Manly Art Gallery. Photo by Peter Morgan 

Born in The Philippines and raised in Australia, Anne Numont is a Sydney-based artist. In 2003, she completed an Honours degree in Design at UNSW, and has since also traded as a designer in the television industry. Place, perception and memory are central to Anne's art practice. Experimenting with method and scale in the field of contemporary drawing, she makes landscapes and informal geographies. With a syncretist approach, references include migration, Australiana, her Filipino heritage, cubism, typography, weather systems, astrology, wellness, science and sustainability. She is fascinated by the potential of light, landscape and mapping to project aspects of space, self and society.

Anne Numont, A Personal Geography, 2017, handmade paper, fire, acrylic, graphite, gesso, cotton,
rice paste, PVA, foamcore, vegetation and natural dyes


While working, Anne relishes the handmade and elemental. The mercurial quality of nature helps her to reconcile inherent polarities of life such as permanence / temporality, home / dislocation, forgetting / remembering. Tailored processes spawn different outcomes from drawing to handmade paper, collage, mixed media and installation. Underpinning her work is a state of liminality and the possibilities this space can manifest. Anne's work has been selected for exhibitions at AGNSW, Manly Art Gallery & Museum and Mosman Art Gallery. She has been a finalist in national art prizes including The Dobell Prize for Drawing, the Hutchins Art Prize, Yen Art Awards and Cliftons Art Prize Asia-Pacific. Her work has been acquired by North Sydney Council and private collections in Australia and overseas. 

Anne Numont, Generations, 2018, Handmade paper and pulp, fire, pigment, pastel binder (gum tragacanth),
 pastel, PVA, sampaguita scent, local vegetation 
During my residency at Gunyah I plan to continue with experiments for a body of work including handmade paper, drawing and installation about memory and personal deep mapping. With respect to the meaning of ‘Gunyah’ I would like to explore concepts of home, rest and shelter in my work.
Anne Numont, Parked 1, 2016, graphite, gesso, acrylic, handmade paper, vegetable dye and
vegetation (sourced from Primrose Park) and PVA on Arches paper

You can see more of Anne's work on her website https://annenumont.com