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anne quail



Anne Quail is a multi-disciplinary artist utilising performance, lens-based media and drawing. Her practice operates in the gap/crossover space between art and life, taking everyday actions and objects (chopping onions for example) as the material presence from which she works a position between the familiar and the strange.  Employing strategies of performative action, labour, recognition and mutation her interventions on the usual create a space for intimate investigation of the overlooked minutiae of detail that infuses our lives. This state of self-awareness she creates, extends our sensorium into our innate consciousness, disambiguating the unconsciously habitual and intuitive, making the implicit explicit...

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