Anna Horne

Artist Statement

"The striking disparity between the familiarity of her materials and the strangeness of the works themselves is the crux of Horne’s practice. She takes us to this uncanny and awkward place by way of a number of very deliberate strategies. Horne’s work frequently begins with a common material subjected to some foreign process. Consider, for instance, the delightfully inappropriate collision of matter and method represented by parqueted linoleum. Carpentry, upholstery and tailoring are also up for grabs and Horne undertakes them all with that kind of gung-ho, make-do working knowledge peculiar to sculptors. In doing so, she seems to feign ignorance about her processes and materials and their normal day-to-day purposes, ignoring how the job should be done in favour of the more poetic possibilities of how it could be done."

Text by Roy Ananda (South Australian artist and writer)

Art Forms