Objet d’art Map by Anna Peake

Object / NewTalentsByKlimt02 Organic

Published: 01.07.2018

Anna creates representations of places close to her heart using contours of the land. From wall murals to jewellery and wood to silver she produces topographical works of art. Anna’s work offers a new perspective on the container within which we live our social lives, putting one’s head, one’s eye, and one’s heart on the same axis by using geographically correct information. She assembles an interpretation of space that helps one understand how they see his or her world, how they interpret their everyday human actives that take place within it.
Anna’s working methodology employs the traditional processes of lost wax casting colliding it with the modern digital technologies of laser cutting. Transcending the boundaries of 21st-century traditional craft making she participates in the debate of the digitally handmade movement.
Entranced by one’s connections and emotional ties to specific places which play major roles in life and the personal connection between the owner and the work. She explains it as “creating art with the layers of your life”. Originally her inspiration came from the exquisite landscape of Wales in which she grew up. However, most recently Anna has applied her methodical way of working to create a collection inspired by the contours of Farnham nestled in the rolling Surrey Hills where Anna currently studies.