Artist Statements- Anna Phillips

Anna Phillips work is inspired by what’s happening in society that she feels is relevant in her own life. Her latest piece “Void” covers 5 different adjectives - Vulnerability, Fear, Lust, Obsession and Collection; and was influenced by artists such as David Hockney and Gilbert+George. The piece began by looking at ideas of how men collect women that they've slept with, but it actually grew more into how people collect, and obsess over things to fill void spaces in our life, striving to achieve perfection. In this piece she creates vulnerability through the motion blurred photographs. 

Her aim was to make you feel seduced into this space as a viewer, leaving you feeling slightly vulnerable because of this. The intensity of the colour and the mass of photographs brings out the ideas of obsession, altogether leaving you feeling uncomfortable by presenting us with the everyday and emotions attached to these, when in reality we do not wish to face them.