Anna Bush Crews
Ranchos de Taos, NM
Four + 3
ceramic sculpture
12" x 21" x 5"
2024
$950
About
I was born in Taos and left after high school. Involvement with photography from my teenage years and influences from living within an active artist community of Taos, plus curiosity about the world, have led to my artist practice that has sustained me along the way.
Living in different situations has broadened my outlook and contributed to my art practice through the breadth of references I have gained from other cultures and travels that have so influenced the way I see my own.
I have exhibited photography, collage, and video in various places, mostly in England, Wales, and New Mexico, and have lots of unfinished projects.
Teaching photography in a range of situations and different levels has taught me a lot and inspired my art work through involvement with students. I am retired from being full time senior lecturer at the Newport School of Art & Design, University of Wales, Programme Leader of Photographic Art. Previously I taught photography in Zambia, Botswana, and England, and ran a photography gallery and darkrooms in Bath, England.
Artist Statement
What’s in a bubble? The bubble speaks of transition and impermanence, matters of concern to me in my photographic, video and sculptural work.
My work moves in ways that keep me involved and amused, and therefore does not stay fixed on one thing that does transfix me for a time, and then wane off. Interests are related and can come around again and build on what was there previously. Water is entrancing to me, and I have been photographing and filming it for around 50 years.
It is the bubble in water that inspires and informs my video work in the present. The bubble is a transitional space, between a gas and a liquid, and a metaphor, perhaps, for the human condition we find ourselves in now. Inevitably changing before our eyes, the bubble is not stable. The bubble alone, half a sphere, can gently glide along the waterway, but not for long.
The bubble seeks to join others, forming groups that flow together as the movement takes them. A trapped bubble, such as under ice, will squirm around until it can pair up with another bubble or escape to air.
En masse, the bubble becomes foam and exists as a moving form for an indeterminate time, dependant on the conditions that create it. A big bubble, a little bubble, and all between, they dance with their perfect form and ephemerality.
Art from Anna Bush Crews in other TAAC exhibitions
