Anna Wray
After studying her undergraduate at Chelsea College of Art and Design Anna Wray is currently completing her Masters in Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art. Exhibiting widely throughout the UK and Canada as well as teaching, Anna has just authored her first book 'Handmade Graphics: Beyond the mouse' published by Rotovision. Wray’s practice draws our attention to the circulation and distribution of images as a method for examining the way in which technology continually changes our visual culture. Using the Internet as a primary source for material, Wray’s found imagery varies from holiday snaps, images of motorways, planes or images taken from a car window or caravan. The images become abstracted and deteriorate as they migrate further from their original source, creating a tension between surface interest and illusionism.
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Drawing
21.5cm x 14.5cm
Graphite on card
Wray’s drawings are inspired by methods of printing techniques. Her works arise from a desire to understand what happens in the transition between the ‘virtual’ web based image and the ‘actual’ printed image. Through a process of printing low-resolution images found online Wray adds a further stage of image entropy. Her drawing technique copies the grainy and distorted quality of images that we have increasingly become accustomed to viewing.
£550
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