Few practitioners can bring us so intimate an image of a humpback, an image taken in the first-person and finished on archival paper, soaked to its margin in topaz ink.
Whatever practise Anne returns to - be it painting, photography, being in the water, or writing – it’s as though she’s never been away from it. In continually exploring she enjoys a transdisciplinary approach: daring, encountering, and retelling.
— Angela Trolove
Anne Marie Basquin is a writer and artist based in Leigh near Te Hāwere-a-Maki in Aotearoa New Zealand. She grew up in the Midwest and Great Lakes region of the US and Ōtepoti Dunedin in the South Island of Aotearoa. She moved to the Hauraki Gulf in 2021.
She has a BFA in Printmaking from the Dunedin School of Fine Arts and a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. Her work has been exhibited around Aotearoa and published in the anthologies Strong Words 4, Poto | Short and Hoot!, in the academic journal Junctures, in the photobook whispering bird song, and online in Flash Frontier and The Golden Key.
