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: The Aftermath of Geological Interference Medium: CMYK screen print on paper Size: 2020 x 2080 mm The Aftermath of Geological Interference attends to the scattered fragments of satellite and microscopic imagery connected to disused open pit mines. This work reconstructs the formation of the land, entangling two opposing visual expanses: the micro and the macro. I translate imagery into surface texture, materialising archived data to respond to deep time and deep futures at the core of a landscape subjected to the speeds of industry and profit. The printed image spans over eight panels, each one forming in layers overtime as I pushed ink through the halftone dot data suspended in the mesh of a silkscreen. I am drawn to the physicality of building imagery, working with screen printing to transfer my immaterial, digital reconstructions into lively, glossy textures. The imagery I create does not resemble a particular place but forms new imaginaries that unearth active threats in the land. I curate my prints to echo an ore body or mineral.
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