annie higgins

My work explores ways of repairing our relationships to our bodies and the world around us through physicality and touch.

Today we largely view ourselves as separate to nature, especially as we know less and less about the cycles and organisms that support it. I believe that in order to repair our relationship to the environment, it is important to see for ourselves how we fit into it. Through this connection, we may also come to see our bodies as physical, visceral objects of sensation, defined only by how they afford us experience and interaction.

These pieces reflect on how people have always created depictions of the body, in the form of self-portraits, figurines, fetishes, and icons. In doing so, we often make ourselves from the stuff of the earth - clay, pigment, iron – in a symbolic act of self-creation. I am acting on this compulsion to reform the body and see it reflected outside the self, placed back into the landscape and the hands it came from. For me, these objects speak of ways of finding androgyny and familiarity in novel depictions of the body.

Annie will be running a demo on Forged Steel Craft Practice on Friday 18th August.