Topologies

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Anne Wilson lives and works in Chicago. Traditional textile techniques such as lace making, crochet and knitting are integral to her practice. Using these essentially homely activities, often associated with women, she applies them in unexpected ways to create powerful, complex and delicate forms.

For the Topologies installation, Wilson and a team of assistants spent a week pinning into place thousands of tiny parts – webs of black lace, crocheted thread and netting – to form a topography or a large map-like drawing. In a similar play on scale, she uses animated film to bring loose threads and pins to life. Small insignificant things become movie stars.

‘In my art work the concept and content direct the use of material and process. I move from weaving, to sound, to glass, to video and collaborative practices very liberally, rather than being defined by a specific way of making. More constant is my interest in material histories and issues that come out of the everyday as they relate to our human condition.’
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source: anne-wilson

Anne Wilson Artist and Illustrator

Anne has as MA in illustration from Central St Martins College of Art, London and has been practising as an illustrator for over 15 years. Much of her work in inspired by everyday life, pattern, colour and shape, She incorporates figurative elements, layers and textures, with mixed media, printmaking and computer techniques.

Her images are constructed in layers, rolling out backgrounds with printing inks, onto which she created more layers either by hand or digitally. Stencils, intricately cut and mono printed papers, collage, acrylic washes, painted details and drawing are all part of the process. Some of her images are created entirely in Photoshop, other are created entirely by hand.