Artist Statement: Anna Brazier.

Living is moving; how we move embodies our pasts and creates our futures. My practice in performance, drawing, and mixed media has these ideas at its heart.

Making room for improvisation is central, and ideas emerge from paying attention through moving, through looking, listening and through mark making.  I am drawn to methods and materials that support these processes. I like working with ink and wax and hand made paper. I like making work that is creased ripped or folded, or that is hung up and mobile. I like to play with sculptural elements and parts that might move. I also like to collaborate and am currently working with a colleague on a project that takes us back and for between our Alexander Technique and Drawing practices.

Currently my focus is on The Severn Crossing which is fundamental part of any trip to England from Wales. As a child we went by ferry ( if it was running) then by the ‘New Bridge’ built in 1966. I have been collecting writing, maps, and images, and conversations, for a long time and have yet to work out quite how to bring it together into a piece of work. Now I have a new studio space and I’m loving playing with ink and hand made paper so we will see ………….

Background

I worked in the NHS as a Clinical Psychologist/Systemic Psychotherapist before training as an Alexander Technique Teacher and completing my MFA with distinction at Cardiff Metropolitan in 2016. I now combine an arts practice with my Alexander work. I am also a member of Good News from the Future a Cardiff based physical theatre group. https://goodnewsfromthefuture.org.uk.

Exhibitions / Projects 

‘In All Languages’ The Unity Project – Cardiff Arcade. April 2016.

‘Full Extension’ live drawing as part of Human Needs Project at Vegetable Agenda. Pembrokeshire.  June 2016.

‘Like a Woman’ images and text accepted for Dangerous Woman Project – Edinburgh University. July 2016. http://www.dangerouswomanproject.org. This was work has now been included in the print edition 2021.

Prints and Collaborative carving: The Rodd residency exhibition Presteign. September 2016.

DON’T RUN. R3 Fest. Performance November 2016. Cardiff Indoor Stadium.

‘Like a Woman’ Digital print. Open Winter Exhibition 2016 Queens Hall Naberth Celebrating International Womans Day. Open Exhibition. Art Central Barry. March 2017.

Good News From the Future performed Museum Pieces at the National Museum of Wales 28th May 2017.  See http://gordons.photos/museum-pieces.

‘A Shared Walk’. A collaboration as part of the Made in Roath Festival October 2017.  See  http://asharedwalk.wordpress.com.

‘Wanderlust’. Dry point print. Celebrating International Women’s Day. Open Exhibition. Art Central. March 2018.

‘Dancing among disciplines: An exploration of embodied practices’. Paper presented at ‘The embodied experience of drawing ‘ One Day Symposium organised by discovering through drawing. http://www.drawsymposium.co.uk. April 13th 2018.

‘A Shared Walk Porth’  The Made in Roath collaboration reimagined with workshops for  ‘Art in the Attic’  The Factory.  Porth. 25th June / 13th July 2018.

Journeys A to C.  Exhibition at the Cwtch Newport with A Shared Walk. May to June 2019.

Lane Walk: St Davids. Concertina sketch in mixed media on paper. WAA exhibition Llanover Hall. October 2019.

Lane Walk: St Davids. Large concertina sketch in mixed media on paper. CASW exhibition. Art Central Barry. October- November 2019.

Journeys C to C. A Shared Walk Exhibition at Cynon Valley Museum November 2019.

‘Pulling together Apart’. A Shared Walk exhibition presented on line hosted by Aberdare museum Spring 2020

‘Lost’ A Shared Walk exhibition The Red House Merthyr. August – November 2021 and Aberdare Museum January 2022.

‘The group of artists that came together for the first A Shared Walk at Made in Roath, and worked together until January 2022, now holds its archive at http://asharedwalk.wordpress.com.

‘Home Time 2020’. Accepted for inclusion at the Turner House Open Penarth. Autumn 2021.

Good News From The Future performed ‘Sit Still’, in Chapter Theatre Cardiff. Part of Reciprocal Gestures a season of movement and dance. September – December 2023.

‘Helen’ Ink on paper hung on wire. Art Central WAAW exhibition March – April 2024.

Details I am based in Cardiff S. Wales.  Please go to my companion web site movementinmind.org to contact me via email.