As part of my own therapy I have created a sensory aid artwork range I sell in outlets and markets. Below is a link to this journey in helping myself and others work through our sensory overload, hypersensitive and textually sensitives via my art creations.
Re'Kleimmes & DPMB sensory artworksFortunate my song Opposing Me was chosen in this years Regional Songwriting Contest in the Central West. Over the moon to have recieved the Boatshed Award for my song. Giving me the opportunity to have one on one with a music producer and recording time. Check out my Instagram page for more details link below
Self Portrait – Reflections on my Complexities, starting several years ago as an assortment of crochet pieces/journals I would create as I traveled my journey of treatments and specialist. Binding these pieces has become a process of reflection, acceptance of physical abilities, moods and emotions. Has been accepted as a finalist in the open section of CAC - Fisher's Ghost Art Prize 2024
My Blood My Body was the work I presented for the Cementa24 Arts Festival in Kandos, NSW. A four act program, explored and addressed my cultural, traditional and social conditioning. Finding connection spiritual to the land through rituals from a simple afternoon tea sharing stories to confession of the heart. Making traditional Slovenian Butarica's symbolic for rebirth to a grounding ceremony.
Cementa24 Arts FestivalI was fortunate enough to receive a grant from Regional Arts Australia in documenting My Blood My Body, a four act program/workshop I performed and facilitated at Cementa24 Arts Festival in Kandos NSW. I am currently working on the raw footage to develop documentary of this work as it develops into a ten year journey of self healing, self awareness and social discovery. Videographer Gus Armstrong documented the work and I am fortunate to have over 9 hours of raw footage which I am eager to edit and create additional works from this footage. I would like to thank those who have supported me in both applying, documenting and going through a process that one can learn from.
Walking Mind 1 is from a series of works reflecting my paternal traits. Whilst my father was traveling through a extremely difficult period in his fifties. He often turned to walking as a release. In this series I'm exploring by mapping out my walking trails. Mapping out habitual patterns, sequences during my stays at residencies. This is one of seven pieces create from my Kandos, February residency 2024 stay. This work is under a larger topic of work title Intergenerational Trauma.
Intergenerational Trauma is a larger body of work. I'm current working through understanding family embedded trauma, as well as cultural/social trauma. This piece 'Chainstitch' is a reflection based on my relationship with my mother and myself. Our repetitive behavioral patterns and struggles to change them. The similarities, differences, stripped back and the reinvention of set boundaries.
During my second year in university I started to document using a Polaroid camera. After the completion of the year I commenced working on Which - an overlay to my obsession. It is a dual sided work showing a mosaic somewhat structure world on the exposed side and opposing side of scratched out imaging which altered/adjusted images in a cartoon type depiction referencing the concept of thought projection.
Campbelltown Arts Centre - Yearbook exhibition SpaceYzDuring the Space Yz exhibition I was given the opportunity to create a seven day Installation. This was my first exhibition after my residency in Hawaii and what later became the adjustment to my practice. Within my studio resided an old worn armchair. For this installation 'On the Seventh Day' I used the armchair as a point of reference to recreation. Prior the installation I documented and pulled apart the armchair noting all it's construction, the collection of items within and materials used. The installation became the working board, the map of my reconstruction. During the time the audience engaged via the taking of Polaroid images and confessions of thoughts which were typed and conceded within the installation.
https://www.spaceyz.com.au/interventionThis work looks into the Native American Indian in my bloodline. I created this dual-sided Re'kleimme, both masculine and feminine as I am unaware of which side this bloodline derives from. On this masculine side, stitching indicates lines of travel and battles.
This work looks into the Native American Indian in my bloodline. I created this dual-sided Re'kleimme, both masculine and feminine as I am unaware of which side this bloodline derives from. On this feminine side, stitching indicates the womb and birth.
ReNew Exhibition, Annexe space, The Foundation, Portland.
https://thefoundations.com.au/events/past-events/renew2021/ReNew exhibition, Annexe, The Foundation, Portland
https://thefoundations.com.au/events/past-events/renew2021/This work came about after my visit to the Pacific Islands of Hawaii. The Hawaiians have a saying; E lei no au I ko aloha. Translated into English; I will be crowned with your love. Waste Turmoil - Pacifica reflects the westernized consumerism that is overtaking these islands and their traditional culture. The commercialization of westernizing culture and the encroaching pacific ring of plastic waste.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anacarterstudioWaste to Art - open prize Medium: Bone, linen, cotton, wire, paper, and foil. 11072014 Osteology is a part of a larger body of work called "Classification". This work reflects my mother's essence, as a seamstress, lace maker, her passion for flowers, and her demise, bone cancer. Classification signifies points of time and reasons of a death that have occurred in my lifespan. The work portrays the persona and the interaction between both myself and the person that had physically died.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anacarterstudio2018 Death, Cycles, and the lines between, Lithgow Learning Centre and Library, Lithgow Displayed in Campbelltown on a stack of bricks with a scattering of capsules stating, 'pick me! Eat me!' The work reference the growing concern of acceptance of medication that is currently in our society. (Image) Displayed in Lithgow, the work is hung in an accordion style, with a button.
