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CathexisAnna Lewis
29 Ebrill - 16 Mehefin 2007
‘Cathexis' ‘an attachment or transfer of emotional energy and significance onto and into an object, idea or person.
Mission Gallery has set a new and challenging initiative that offers artists and craft makers the opportunity to create a site specific installation in the gallery's unique exhibition space. The Swansea based artist Anna Lewis, known as a jeweller/designer maker, is the first to take up this challenge and work outside her usual practice on a large scale installation.
Memory, memorial, superstitions, amulets and shrines are interconnecting themes which inspire and inform Anna's work and she is constantly striving to discover the symbolic significance of objects in peoples lives, whether they are personal, religious, cultural or universal. Stemming from a fascination with recording her own personal history, she is interested in the relationship people have with certain objects and how they influence behaviour and belief through their material meanings.
Anna has chosen to interpret these influences both symbolically and visually in her work. Using themes and imagery from her own collection of family heirlooms, she combines materials like feathers, leather, wood and silver which are printed with delicate traces of memory.
Since graduating from Middlesex University in 2000 Anna Lewis has become well known for her delicate printed feather creations. Her work has been exhibited at some of the best contemporary craft galleries throughout the UK and she has been an exhibitor at Chelsea Crafts Fair. She has also exhibited internationally including France, USA, Kuwait, Germany, Japan, Milan and Australia. In the past her jewellery has been featured in several magazines including Elle Decoration, Living Etc. Wedding & Home, You, Embroidery, Selvedge, and Crafts magazine.
