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
Experiments on 35mm film,
Tawharanui and Whananaki.
A kelp bed sits exposed at low tide near the island at Te Kohuroa, its holdfasts, stipes, blades and bladders glint mustard-yellow in the evening sun. The falling tide pulls all the way out, turns, pours languidly back over the kelp’s yielding tendrils.
Exposed kelp bed, Te Kohuroa Matheson Bay.
This image published in Whispering Bird Song, The Handmade Darkroom Sustainable Photography Collective, August, 2024, pg 18.
My writing and art practice endeavors to situate my personal experience within the wider ecological field, making a record of change in the body and in the ecological framework the body lives within.
Water and the borderlands between water and land are central to my practice (and life). I fish selectively and sustainably above water and free dive below.
These photographs were taken when my partner and I went floundering a month after my second miscarriage.
The pain of the miscarriage made me animal. It was brutal but enriching and I was still reeling from the impact of it. Walking like a stilted bird through the shallows, water up to my shins, I felt animal, but not from pain. I stood in the water like a tall bird, peering in.
Water is balm to trauma stored in the body. The ebb and flow of the mangroves soothed the hormones still ebbing from my body and the loss of the small failed body.
I captured the magenta-hued world as night fell and I too felt magenta-hued, warmed by my very aliveness.
These photographs are an effort to capture the intricacies and intersections of miscarriage, subsistence living, and the coastal front lines of our changing environment and ecosystems.