Artist:
Anne Bevan
Title:Snowmilk
Medium:Lithograph & Screenprint
Image size (cm) h x w: 35 x 50cm
Edition size: 20
Shifting materials,
places, connections. The means to contain and carry.
I often work with found objects as a starting point, using a process
of moulding and casting as a means to play with ideas. Here, the litho
plate became the mould, the skins of ink the casts, with each addition
becoming more and more a trace of the original, an erosion despite the
accumulation of new layers.
What I wanted to explore and develop from the original image was the
feeling and temperature of the three materials in the image - snow,
milk, aluminium. The two whites, cool and warm, framed and contained
by metal.
I enjoy the inevitable connections of working with photo negative or print plate, and working with moulds. There’s a continual inversion of thought process - a teasing mind game, and if not taken too seriously, the surprises of accident, the acceptance of chance (though with the security of working with an expert lithographer). Not quite working in the dark, but certainly no going back.
C. V
Born in Orkney,
Scotland in 1965, Anne Bevan studied fine art and sculpture at Edinburgh
University and Edinburgh College of Art, completing her studies in 1988.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at the Collective Gallery,
Edinburgh, the Pier Art Centre, Stromness, and at the Fruitmarket Gallery,
Edinburgh, where her undercover project was exhibited in 2000. She is
currently working on a new project, Rosengarten, with the writer Janice
Galloway which involves research into medical instruments and will result
in a major new publication and exhibition in 2004.
Bevan has had exhibitions in many countries, including Sweden, Norway,
Finland, USA, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, Mauritius and Switzerland. Her
most recent work has involved site specific works for public spaces
including Moon Pool a commission for a forest and Source a temporary
tidal sculpture which was installed in Stromness harbour and involved
transportation of water from Venice.
Her work combines sculpture with sound, video and text and she often
works collaboratively. She lives and works in Edinburgh where she teaches
sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art.
Solo
publications include:
Pipelines with Janice Galloway, Fruitmarket Gallery 2000
Lifting Light, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, 1997