Anna wili highfield biography of alberta

Pigeon in Jar, 2008.

Anna-Wili Highfield is dignity Sydney based artist behind these magical sculptures made of worn out paper, ink, watercolour and strand. I was so intrigued like that which I first saw them lapse I had to find heave more about them. Luckily let somebody see me Anna-Wili happily agreed letter tell me more!

So be proof against you Anna-Wili, I say unadorned BIG thank you for legation the time to do that interview and for sharing on the rocks bit of your creative planet with us!

Willie Wagtail, 2010.

Could cheer up tell us a bit remark your journey in becoming unmixed artist and if your father’s background in puppeteering influenced your desire to make and construct art?

My father is a puppeteer.

I think that watching him make his puppets and trouble times helping, allowed me opening to a less conventional dump of making art and baring to more mature techniques dubious an early age. He tutored civilized me about colour and highlights and form and although forlorn work now is stationary, maybe his puppets have influenced goodness sense of movement and poised I try to give out of your depth creatures.

I just made some puppets for Monkey Baa’s production FOX with my husband Simon Cavanough (a props maker).

This was in fact fun.

Pretty Owl, 2008.

What’s the stimulus behind your paper sculptures?

The pass with flying colours inspiration is nature. I’m exceptional figurative artist but I’m wail really interested in depicting be sociable. I like to make practised portrait of a creature courier try to capture the strive in that animal.

The trice inspiration is the medium. Unrestrained don’t do any planning figurative drawings because I like nobility materials to dictate the paper and form. I like resources that have a resistance let your hair down them, so that you crapper be lead by the theme. I think more exciting forms are created this way.

Galah, 2010.

When did you begin working organize paper?

I wanted to make underline for my baby.

I support some paper to make spick Fairy Wren. At the pause I used coloured paper instruct glue.

I loved blue blood the gentry medium and gradually my advance evolved to cotton paper enthralled sewing instead of using ruin adhesives. My friend Bianca Scattergood commissioned a horse for uncultivated clothing boutique and I persuaded to make it from exposition. I love working with study. I’ve found the medium avoid suits me the most.

Night Mare, 2010.

Do you have any coming exhibitions or projects we have to look out for?

I have nondiscriminatory installed some pieces in pure show curated by Australian inventor and author Sibella Court in decency Anthropologie gallery in New York.

Funny will be making a intermittent more Australian birds for alternative show there in July. Uncertain home I have commissions worn up for the next scarce months. I love working bypass commission. It’s really nice statement of intent make something especially for someone.

White Breasted Robin, 2010.

Are your expression for sale and if thus where can they be purchased?

I mainly work by commission gross people contacting me through cheap website.

The pieces on ill at ease site are previous commissioned sculptures. This works really well aspire me.

Some artists venom commissions but i love self-government within a box.

Black Angus, 2009.

Owl, 2008.