Building Blocks:
Sarah Annand

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photo access Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre

Sarah Annand, AWM Annex Series #2, 2020

Exhibition Overview

Working primarily to produce textile designs, ACT-based Annand transforms architectural images into patterns for interiors. Building Blocks presents a visual study of the artist’s intricate process which incorporates photography, painting and digital processing.

Annand dissects our built environment through a sculptural aesthetic drawing on distinctive modernist and brutalist architectural styles. Her practice balances the documentation of architectural history with an exploration of new forms and compositions, producing engaging artworks that speak to nostalgia, preservation and abstraction.

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Exhibition artist

Sarah Annand

With over a decade in the textile industry, following a background of art and photography study and practice, Sarah Annand established OAT Studio. Sarah is passionate about the creative process and producing Australian designed textiles for our interiors.

‘My aesthetic is influenced by architecture, which has been a love of mine for as long as I can remember. This passion for our built environment runs throughout my creative journey, with my early photography studies around 15 years ago focusing on architecture of New Zealand, dissecting the shapes of building facades and creating new architectural compositions with the fractured images. When I relocated to Canberra 5 years ago, it was hard not to be inspired by the incredible brutalist and modernist structures we are so fortunate to be surrounded by.’

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