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Anne Brodie

By: Cynthia Cousens

Cynthia Cousens profiles Anne Brodie, who uses film, photography and glass, discussing her career development and fellowship to Antarctica in 2006/7.

Since gaining an MA in Glass at the Royal College of Art, Anne Brodie’s practice has gradually moved away from a single material transcending discipline in its concern with “the objectification of questions”. She now sees herself as “an artist who sometimes uses film, sometimes photography and sometimes, within a sculptural context, is drawn to working in glass.” Brodie engages with concepts around the human notion of movement and transience, and what it is to be human in this precarious world. To capture these fleeting experiences, she uses a range of media: “glass, photography, direct scanning, sound, video and other forms of mark making by the object itself”. Brodie comments about her earlier work, where the act of making forms part of the subject matter, that “the moments of decision and hesitancy made by the maker, are all to me as exciting and as relevant as the resulting piece of finished glass.” The momentous experience of the Antarctica Fellowship moved her thinking forward: “my work in the glass studio had been concerned with the pre-object-making and Antarctica was the other end, the thumbprint of the result of...

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