Bundanon

Anne Buckingham is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the areas of installation, textile, printmaking and research. 

She also works as a facilitator of arts based learning, and as an art therapist. As a researcher her work is driven by arts based enquiry to broaden and create knowledge though experiential and experimental art making. This includes finding ways to re-contextualise outcomes to communicate with an audience. Recent projects have included socially engaged art on the topic of mental health, and intergenerational community art exploring the intersection of local and personal histories. She has a strong interest in arts based enquiry as reflective practice in the workplace. Anne’s current arts practice includes installation, cyanotypes, printmaking, bookmaking and textiles. Her work has been published in international journals and magazines and she has exhibited nationally and internationally.

In Residence at Bundanon

During her time at Bundanon Anne will carry out arts based research on the use of map making as a means of holding and communicating understandings of wellbeing. As visual forms maps can appeal aesthetically, emotionally, cognitively and spiritually. As with a sense of wellbeing, they are also subjective, reflecting the maker’s and viewer’s history, culture and perspectives. Creatively the work will begin with an exploration of the many forms a map can take, considering structures, designs, purposes and materials before exploring how individuals might use, make or view different maps to understand and support their own sense of wellbeing.