Bio:
Anna Wilson is an artist born and working in London, Ontario. She graduated from Western University in 2018, where she studied visual art and psychology. She currently works as an artist in residence at TAP Centre for Creativity, pursuing her interest in drawing architecture and furniture. Wilson had her first solo exhibition in June 2019, and has continued to show art in London, Ontario, as well as Toronto, Montreal, and Nova Scotia. She has received multiple grants including Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create component, and has also been granted the TAP Emerging Artist Program residency. Wilson currently works full time in her studio and as a teaching instructor at Artventure Art Studio, where she shares her love of visual arts with high schools students. She currently is in the process of working on a project celebrating her home city of London, and focuses on the architecture and furniture that makes the city unique. Wilson plans to stay on at TAP Centre for Creativity as an artist-in-residence for the foreseeable future and continue to pursue her interest in drawing furniture in high detail and experimenting with the abstraction of architecture.
Statement:
My work as an artist is largely based around marker drawings of architecture and furniture. I use fine tip black markers, as well as black gouache, to manipulate and combine together multiple architectural perspectives and buildings, many of which include architecture I am familiar with. Starting by choosing two or more interior and exterior layers, I line up the layers in a way that allows them to interact, creating a new space. This new space examines the grey area of the superimposition of the interior and the exterior, referred to as the “between.” The “between” is often overlooked in architecture and my drawings further explore how multiple perspectives of a building can be manipulated to create this grey space.
The overwhelming nature of these drawings, through their intense detail, leads to my other pieces, which include exploring furniture and the surrounding area. The depth of the black gouache allows for the viewer to project his or her own memories into the artwork, while considering how furniture alone can create its own perspective of an architectural space. The architecture and furniture I base my works upon are functional objects. With my art, I intend to turn these once functional architectural perspectives of houses and furniture into new, multilayered fictional spaces of memory and place.
www.annawilsonart.ca
