This week Danni and Caffs welcome their first ever guest and what a spectacular one she turned out to be. Appearing alongside her fantastically patient toddler, Anna lets us into her world and quite frankly we didn't want to leave it.
Anna FC Smith is a Wigan (UK) based multimedia artist. She studied Critical Fine Art Practice at the University of Brighton, graduating in 2007 and has exhibited internationally.
Smith explores social history, folk culture and ritual through historical and anthropological research. Creating sculpture, installation, performance, and group actions her works emerge as symbolic collages spanning eras, and forms of material culture. Touching on politics and performative space, she examines power and community, juxtaposing the ‘low culture’ and irreverence of communal tradition with the pageantry and ceremony of governance. Seeking links contemporary society has to its predecessors, she sees history and ritual as means to interpret the present.
Enjoy and check out Anna's upcoming projects:
Anna has a collaborative installation made with Helen Mather as part of Creating Place II at Turnpike Gallery, Leigh on until 30th March. @theturnpikegallery
She is part of the artist led exhibition Seeing Things at The Edge, Wigan 20th Feb - 29th Feb @seeing_things_
She runs TERM art classes with fellow artist Klaire Doyle, they deliver life drawing and art history classes online, to get involved visit @artdiscussterm https://term.ticketlight.co.uk/
