ANNA GLYNN | WORLDS WITHIN

JOIN THE ARTIST AT THE OPENING: SATURDAY 22 NOVEMBER, 4 - 6PM 'Worlds Within’ celebrates Anna Glynn’s enduring artistic obsessions, tracing a consistency through her extensive career. The works are derived from intense periods of creative passion, both in Australia and in Asia. Working with ancient traditional Chinese inks and contemporary digital photomontage Glynn creates works that are challenging and thoughtful. They evolve and meld into a continuous story where nature, politics, history, colonization, flora and fauna tumble and rearrange themselves. In this topsy turvy world, Glynn creates her commentary on how all is not as it presents itself – look deeper, look beyond. The worlds within these images are at times complex allegories. There is duality of meaning. Long-legged birds are shrouded puppeteers, controlling unknowing puppet-horses, controlling society? Recently-colonized kangaroos stare into a bleak future or balance on the back of a robust ox, or waving a British flag. This small window into Glynn’s oeuvre, ‘Worlds Within’ provides the viewer opportunities to consider their place in the world. “If we take a moment to properly attune ourselves to Anna Glynn’s artworks, they speak volumes about her as an artist and the concerns of her art practice: her catholic curiosity about places, their ecologies and inhabitants; her depth of thinking and research; her ability to truly observe and wonder, to imagine and relate…” “There is no proselytising here. Rather, there is an open hand offered by the artist, the invitation being, ‘Come with me, let me show you the world through my eyes’… When we do attune eye and mind to accepting and embracing this rare and precious invitation then our view of ourselves and the world can shift in the most enlightening ways..” Dr Natalie McDonagh, Australian Curator “…. Appreciating her works, the audience can see her skillful ink techniques, incredible mastery of painting, rich human atmosphere, poetic and aesthetic conception, and experience a mysterious, elegant art form…; her works are a pure and innovative realm through which people can understand nature and life.” - Wang Wuji, Chinese art critic Beijing