About
Working across a number of different media including textiles, video, sound, ceramics, performance, sculpture and installation, Annabel Pettigrew’s practice uses meditation techniques that access the unconscious mind, manifesting in the imagined creation of astral realms and psychic landscapes, accessing these realms to create a visual language unique to the processing of lived experience relating to grief. Encountering portals and entities, this quest for enlightenment presents work made from materials that appear familiar initially, interweaving research through real-time pilgrimage to sacred sites, in an attempt to realise the astral realm, or visions encountered from within it, in material form. Annabel runs an artist collective called ‘Throes of Grief’, whose focus is to hold space for artists whose lives and practices have been transformed by grief.
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