The recent artwork of Wendy Anderson has been based on her extensive world travel, with notes, photographs, drawings of past journeys, manifesting in a series of mixed media paintings and drawings. More recently she has become increasingly aware of the codes and numbers that identify her seat on a flight for example, making crossing boundaries possible. Her ability to enter and exit countries, has become a series of lists, whilst recognizing the anonymity of travel, and with that there is a sense of having no identity whilst between cities. Airport lounges and waiting for flights has become times that Anderson sat, observed and inhabited that state of limbo. This is an interesting juxtaposition within the current political issue of worldwide immigration and migration of refugees within Europe, and how it is ever increasingly difficult to move across country borders. Anderson has previously researched and investigated pigments and minerals to make a series of drawings. A project co-curated by Wendy Anderson, Collective Response, an exhibition held at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, a museum located in London’s financial district and partially built over a Roman amphitheatre, continued her research into ancient pigments. Central to the idea of the works she exhibited during this exhibition was the connection to Roman colour, with each work a collage, concentrating on a particular pigment used in Roman times, such as bone black, cinnabar red and ochre.

Artist Talk | 2015.09.16 (Wed), 13:30 (Multimedia Room)