Journal | Anna Masters

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Forgetting what you know: 5 steps for developing your creative projects

When my brother started his maths A-level, his teacher told him to ‘forget everything he’d already been taught’. I was two years younger...

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Colours of the landscape: exploring the environment through art

In the early days of art school, I remember having a lesson in colour theory; the idea of colours being complementary, contrasting or,...

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Maps, mazes and landscape: how art can offer new perspectives on the physical environment

I recently completed a piece of work, Fault Line. We’d been playing around with copper and Verdi gris in the studio and the effect had a...

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Depicting Time: conveying the ephemeral in art

I've always been fascinated by our relationship with time - I'm not entirely sure where it comes from, but I suspect that a degree of...

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Nurturing wild spaces for creative practice

I rent a little studio which sits amid a little patch of grassland, opposite horses fields which are the home to some very elderly...

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[SHELTER]: designing a site-specific exhibition

I’m thrilled to be collaborating with Museo Spazio Pubblico in Bologna on a site-specific solo exhibition and residency, [SHELTER]. The...

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Journ[ey], Journ[al]: How art and word can help us navigate an abstract world

Though it's not always obvious, words have always played an important role in my work. I’m interested in the origins of words, how words...