Anna Paterson

BIOGRAPHY

Anna Paterson explores experimental processes of image-making on paper, incorporating techniques associated with printmaking, domestic cleaning and painting. Layers of paint are repeatedly removed and reapplied with wire wool, sponges and rags; destructive and constructive gestures made equivocal.
Recent works incorporate folded patterned lines and perforated marks, loosely influenced by lace-making templates and hallucinatory visual phenomena. Paterson treats the paper’s surface as a plane of optical and emotional experience, a fragile reality that can be easily altered or disturbed.