Anna Spear- BA (Hons) Fine Art
The rural is rethought in the artist studio, where displaced agricultural objects and materials grasp onto their innate character within their irregularities and co-dependencies. There’s a simplicity and sensitivity in the mundane meeting of materials - the squish of metal with rounded bends, iron flecks rupturing in the kiln, expanding in the contracting clay. Anna Spear balances the engineered with an unintentional becoming, as materials precariously lean and hang, happening out of pure practicality, forming expressions of rural gestures that mimic an ease found in countryside ‘sculptures’. Working through states of tension and looseness when forging, felting and extruding, her installations are made up of half-formed sentences and defunct objects that repeat in ordered rows, prompting perhaps inconclusive or uncomfortable questioning of rural workings.
