Annie Edney

ABOUT ME

Hi, my name is Annie Edney, and I'm a Melbourne-based artist working with video, exploring our human relationship with the
planet via ancestral memory and genealogy.

I have over 20 years experience as director and lead artist making large-scale site-specific community celebration projects, however I am now focussing on my solo practice of video art.   

Emerging as a video artist in 2015, I currently have two videos showing in Venice, I had one in Istanbul Design Biennial in 2016,  in Mars Gallery’s Melbourne Art Loop 2015 & 2017 and I have work in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival 21-30 July 2017. 

And now an amazing opportunity has come to do an arts residency at the Burren College of Art in Ireland where video making and projection mapping will be the focus of my research and experimentation.  

Stills shots from some of my videos

For more about my work go to:  www.annieedney.org

ABOUT THE PROJECT

It feels as if I've been offered the chance of a lifetime - an arts residency at the Burren College of Art in Ireland!  It's a prestigious place of arts learning in Europe, with a particular focus on contemporary design, and the process of applying for a residency is rigorous, so I am really  honoured to have been invited. 

Burren College of Arts

The residency offers 24/7 access to a studio, facilities like photography studios, printing facilities and equipment, I get to talk regularly with faculty staff, have accommodation at the College, I can attend lectures, talks, exhibitions and events ...  all in the evocative historic castle that houses the Burren College of Art, set in the hauntingly beautiful Burren landscape.  

I expect to be ridiculously inspired!

My current conceptual direction, within the overarching theme of our human relationship with earth energy, is about the memories of all our ancestors that we hold in our DNA.  Can we learn to access those memories from across the ages?  Can I make work that evokes those memories? What happens to my work when I walk the land my ancestors walked while reflecting on ancestral memory and genealogy? When I read into that particular branch of epigenetics?

The main focus of the residency will be learning and becoming familiar with the Projection Mapping program, making new videos that incorporate imagery from the Burren and trialling the use of these in the Projection Mapping program.  I will come away from the residency with increased skill levels and a consolidated body of work, ready to embark on an exciting collaboration with Ian Corcoran, a projections genius I met recently.  We have both expressed an inclination to make a project together.  Watch out!

You can see Ireland is the best place for me to take time and do some research and experimentation.  It will provide a time for reflection about the development of my career, following 25 plus years of a community engaged practice, into the video art of my solo practice.  I will continue my daily drawing practice and some of those drawings will become rewards for those who pledge to my campaign.

A selection of images from my archives.

Your support for my residency at the Burren College of Art in Ireland, will enable me to research and experiment with video making, projection mapping and installation.  And it will ensure that the next stage of my art life will be as magnificent as it can be, making a meaningful contribution to Australia's artworld.

Timeline of Key Dates 

Aug-Oct 2017                   Annie to Burren College of Art residency in Ireland:

                                                        Learning to use and working with the project mapping program

                                                        Drawing and photographing the Burren

                                                        Making new videos

                                                        Designing and making projection mapping project with new videos

                                                        Journalling daily

                                                        Engaging with aspects of College life that pertain to my research

Sept 2017-Jan 2018       Editing and publishing work made during residency

                                             Preparing and distributing Pozible pledge rewards

Feb 2018                           Mounting solo exhibition of residency work

Feb-July 2018                   Developing project utilising projection mapping with Ian Corcoran

                                             Applying for prizes, awards, grants, exhibitions with new skills, and/or collaborative work.

July 2018                           Editing and publishing work made during residency and developing new work.

How The Funds Will Be Used

To take up the residency I need to get there!  

The Pozible campaign covers air fares, accommodation, residency fees and living expenses.

Air fare Melb-Galway and Transport to Burren College of Arts                    $2500

Accommodation at the Burren College of Arts                                                 $1000

Residency fees and Living expenses                                                                   $4250

Pozible campaign fees                                                                                            $  250

TOTAL:                                                                                                                       $8000

Extra funds will be fed into upgrading equipment:  camera, projector, portable OHP, screen, tripod, preparing the work for exhibition and promotion.

To take advantage of this incredible opportunity while it's being offered.

With your support the residency in Ireland will ensure that my career transition from the large scale community engaged practice of the past 25 years, into a significant solo practice that contributes meaningfully to Australia's and the international art world.

Can't wait to get started!