ANNA PLATTEN
“Setting the whole thing up is like a performance and you just feel so silly, but you’ve got to have the belief that it’ll make sense, it’s that leap of faith.
ANNA PLATTEN’S IMPETUS TO TELL ENGAGING stories led her to early Western high narrative painting traditions, partly for their craftsmanship where she says “you can see the glistening on nails”, and mostly for their symbolism.
Stirred to tears by a Flemish painting that she saw in Antwerp, although its religious meanings eluded her, she was captivated by the notion that “everybody in that era was so engaged with that story, and now we live in a time when we don’t have that connection with each other, that shared history of what symbols mean.”
Reflecting on her creative process, her works are replete with metaphors and layered with contradictions. They invite us to join her as sleuths in navigating the nature of human relationships and life’s cycles.
The artist describes her work as semi-autobiographical. When she positions herself within them
