LOCATION: Sydney, Australia

EMAIL: annawkristensen{ @ }gmail.com

BIO: Anna Kristensen is an artist from Sydney. To date she has worked with two dimensional media, ranging from painting, drawing, to lenticular prints and wall paintings, her subject often derived from found photographic imagery.

Shuffling scientific ephemera with New Age iconography, recent work has formulated a hybrid crossing of two kinds of knowledge: science and mysticism. Certain recurring motifs in her artwork - the journey, tunnels, vortexes, and caves - also represent a crossing, a physical passage between one place and another. Her practice has been exploring the potential of these ‘in-between’ spaces to author new fictions, as interstices for imagination and transformation. Representational painting is an ideal means for the artist to present an illusory world, switching between real and un-real, between what we know and what we see / believe.

Anna was a visiting student at the Universität der Künste Berlin in 2007 and completed her MFA in 2008 at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney. Earlier this year she was in residence at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Denise Hickey Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, funded by the Ian Potter Cultural Trust.