Upcoming artist-in-residence: Anne McCallum

Anne McCallum with her work at Centre of Contemporary Photography Melbourne

Anne McCallum is an artist living in Nug Nug, on Mogullumbidj land in North East Victoria. Working across textiles, sculpture, photography and video, she has exhibited at Centre of Contempoary Photography Melbourne; in World Cyanotype Day Exhibitions in Texas, New Orleans and Brisbane; at Kingston Arts; PSC Gallery Southbank; Brunswick St. Gallery and Head On Photo Festival Sydney. In 2020 Anne was an Artist in Residence Isle of Iona in Scotland. Anne is currently finishing her Masters in Fine Art at RMIT University in Melbourne. Her impermanent, delicate sculptures are woven from organic materials. Anne's focus on materiality creates a connection to origin and engages with natural cycles. She also works with meditative moving images to give a sense of duration to these hand woven abstract objects as they sit gently in the natural environment. Anne's slow flowing video allows for drifting in a dreamy manner amongst these artefacts which, like nature, have a transient existence.

Anne McCallum, 2020, Nestling, Free motion embroidery sculpture

During my resideny at Gunyah I plan to create small delicate sculptural forms inspired by the surrounding natural environment. I will also make some cyanotype prints of the local plants and create a video about my creative processes and residency at Gunyah. 

You can see more of Anne's work on Instagram - images_by_anne

Anne McCallum, Maunder (detail), 2020, wisteria vine and found organic threads