anne quail
artist's statement
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.
Her history of growing up on a farm and currently living in an urban
cityscape is shown in the way she affects the boundaries between
herself and the audience, with her work extending beyond the personal
space of both artist and viewer.
Addressing issues of doing, labour, the private and the public, the
unnatural and the natural; it is her punctilious approach that enables
us to engage in such expansive humanist topics on an individual human
level. We partake of the work through experience rather than empathy.