Anima! Artist Collective is a dynamic group of artists formed in 2022 after meeting on a two-year fine art course at City Lit College in London. Working together as a collective, common themes and ideas emerge in their work. These themes grow and intertwine through sharing in each other’s concepts and expressions.
The theme of Anima!’s next exhibition, Shared Spaces, encompasses ideas of personal, favourite and shifting spaces as well as shared interpretation. Showing in the WillesdenGallery which is within the Willesden Green Library, already a ‘shared space’, allows for further interesting interpretations of the theme.
Through their work, they aim to engage with the world and explore their roles within it through painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, sculpture and sound. Working without plotting an outcome, the artists collectively embrace the potential for surprise and revelation; this keeps the work fresh and animated for artist and viewer alike.
Why ‘Anima!’? Anima is the Jungian archetypal feminine spirit – strong, nurturing and fierce. It is also linked to an Italian expression for courage – the motivating force to be powerfully awake.
Artists
Adenike Akinbode
Aurelia Duplouich
Claire Manners Wood
Jane Harris
Jax Hall
Mina Courtauld
Sara Bannerman-Haig
Sally Weatherill
Sue McGonigle
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