Anna Marris
Print MA
Royal College of Art
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Printmaking / Fine Art
My location: London, United Kingdom
Anna Marris
First Name: Anna
Last Name: Marris
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program: Print MA
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Printmaking / Fine Art
My Location: London, United Kingdom
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About
Anna Marris is an artist working between traditional and contemporary modes of print, often extending into sculpture and installation, to test the potentials of research-based creative practice.
Anna graduated from Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton in the summer of 2021, achieving a first-class honours degree in BA Fine Art. In September 2021, Anna began postgraduate study in MA Print at the Royal College of Art. She was awarded a Distinction in her Critical and Historical Studies dissertation titled ‘Exploitative Extraction and Perspectives of Power: An essay investigating perspective through archives, contemporary art practice, and fictional narratives in the representation of resource extraction’.
In April 2023, Anna exhibited with Boiling Point Artist Collective in a collaborative group show and series of public events. The exhibition took place in Openhand Openspace, 571 Oxford Road Gallery in Reading and was awarded an Arts Council England Project Grant.
Anna is a member of ZEST Arts Collective, based in Southampton. Their latest exhibition ‘Polymer Waves’ explored sustainable practice and collaborative workshops that utilised recycled materials to incite positive change in our attitudes towards the climate crisis.
Title: Photomosaic of Abandoned Mine Medium: CMYK screen print Size: 838 x 1143 mm The photomosaic represents advancement in the imaging of the landscape, but also speaks to the power structures in warfare and surveillance. It simplifies the surface into governable masses, where borders deny natural formations and instead mark how land is divided, claimed, and exploited for resources. Through digital editing and printmaking, I play with the aesthetics of aerial photomosaics to embed these narratives of power and progression, which are inextricably tied to resource extraction. The experimental composition of this artwork takes a contemporary spin on the photomosaic to capture a visual expanse of territory and ownership. I edit a selection of imagery: enlarging and overlapping elements of the land, stitching together distorted viewpoints. I manipulate the satellite perspective by altering colour information and embedding shadows to create a deceptively three-dimensional surface. Transferring my digital photomosaic into a large, screen-printed form materialises complex layers that both reveal and conceal the movements of the natural forces and degrading infrastructure at this disused open pit mine. It is in urgent need of assessing.
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