contemporary jeweller / object maker
lives, works and loves melbourne, australia

website: www.annadavern.com.au

Anna Davern’s practice intervenes into the iconography of the kitsch souvenir to question cultural identity. In Buena Vista Davern exploits the political import of the silhouette, cutting away from the quaint landscapes of vintage biscuit tins, the ghostly outlines of human figures. The parts removed find new form as objects of adornment, whilst the hollow spaces left behind trace a troubling relationship to national identity.

education:
Master of Fine Art (Research), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1999 : Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1993 : Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney