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In 2024, I was selected for Collect Open, the curated section of Collect—the Crafts Council’s international art fair at Somerset House in London. This was an exciting opportunity to present a new and ambitious body of work to an international audience, and to share my ongoing exploration of form, transparency, and the natural world through flameworked glass.
The same year, my work was acquired by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art in the United States, with inclusion in a major contemporary glass exhibition scheduled for 2025. This marked an important milestone for me, reflecting the growing international reach and institutional recognition of my practice.
I was also invited to take part in a three-person exhibition at Poatina Tree Gallery in Tasmania, exhibiting alongside leading Indigenous artists. The show encouraged cross-cultural exchange and highlighted shared ideas around material, making, and meaning.
Recent work includes the reception area windows for a new school building, an interior window for a wine lover, and fused glass font bowl and inserts for church furniture.
Dealing with the personal is a strong source of inspiration for Anna; a balance between triangulating the relationship of experiences and the artifacts of her own making. Her work is centred around the theme of relationships; the relationship she has with herself, with others and the environment that surrounds her. It is expressive of her personal experiences and reflects how relationships can influence one’s emotions and state of mind. She states, ‘A face points both ways; in essence whilst one side faces outward, the other is looking inwards to quite another continent or landscape that is invisible to another. Glass as a material enables me to translate and clarify emotional states and the subjective.’ Exploring this theme, her concepts have been translated through a conversation; a relationship in the fusion of glass with metals. The knowledge and understanding of compatibility gained through extensive experimentation of combining these materials is an essential part of her making process. Solid and hollow glass with metal inclusions form the visual language that is now characteristic of her work.