Who: Annie Laing
Location: Dublin
My artistic practice mainly consists of large-scale watercolour pieces, photography, and performance. In my practice, I examine the intimate relationships we form throughout our lives, with a particular emphasis on the discovery of the self through the examination of our private desires.
In my current body of work, though it wasn’t originally intended to examine my own issues, they have nonetheless come out through my art and made me confront them. The art that I am presently working on is directly dealing with my anxiety and overwhelming feelings of paranoia. Through this large-scale acrylic painting that I am working on, it is giving me time to access these feelings, and allowing me to anatomize and dissect them by abstracting them into the physical through colour, tone, and line. Though I am not finished the painting yet, the journey that I am going through while making leads me to believe that it lends itself well to the theme of When Words Fail, and I would be honoured to be a part of something that highlights the importance of communicating your struggles through whatever medium you can, whether it be painting, spoken word, music, acting, film, sculpture – just allowing yourself to communicate in whatever way you can.
My piece, ‘Nathair Nimhe’, is still a work in progress (see below). Here is my thumbnail painting (acrylic on watercolour paper). The actual canvas size is about 7ft x 5ft. The piece represents your mind, stripped bare and vulnerable, slowly being stripped of itself by tendrils of anxiety, paranoia, and self-doubt.
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