Anya Hassett is an artist based in London.

My work is multi-disciplinary and features installation, photography, video, drawing and digital collage, with a combination of playful approaches and more formal sculptural process. Aesthetically, form and colour lead the way, meaning that what follows has a casual, shonky feel to it.

The domestic environment influences and informs my work; particularly how the spaces in which we dwell can bring us a two-fold experience of both comfort and discomfort. It seems to me that the objects we surround ourselves with – whether by choice or by chance - shape our interaction with the physical world. Across my work, there’s an inquest in to experiences or events which occur within our domestic spaces and how they might alter our relationship with the outside world.

In my latest project Stock Take: A Review of Assets, I have documented every object in my London flat during the Covid-19 lockdown and animated them as both individual objects and a whole collection. The mundanity of the domestic objects are a nod to the way that this lockdown limits our visual stimuli, and so the objects take on a life of their own. These objects (such as a toolbox, a box of laundry detergent, a cactus and a spatula), become character-like as they warp, gyrate and bulge. Their boundaries slip and become less certain. What interests me is how a shift in perspective can allow us to examine and investigate what is often overlooked.  

Shadow Pals is a work that has been reinterpreted many times- as a collection of bodily forms, as a group of shadow puppets, as a dog agility course and bound together with rope to create one undistinguishable form.

Dispersed Slump is a collection of works of cut out paper prints showing abstracted water, slumped and hanging over simple steel structures. These works are interchangeable on the stands, holding an unstable quality as if they are mid transformation.

My interest in undistinguishable boundaries and liminal spaces often sits in the water, where the line that divides the above and below is transient and constantly moving. This line has a tension I am constantly trying to replicate, something that so solidly determines air from water. Through this I often bring a fluidity to solid objects I make, through amorphic form.

EXHIBITIONS

2020 Occasionally I've Summoned Objects, Group Exhibition, Art Hub Studios, Deptford

2020 Material Alliances, Group Exhibition, Copeland Gallery, Peckham

2020 Flesh Memory, Group Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Arts

2019 Sensual Worlds, Group Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Arts

2019 UK New Artists City Takeover, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham 

2018 Group Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Arts 

2017 Not Yours, Mine , Solo exhibition, Abingdon Studios supported by Unit Projects

2017 Graduating Foundation Exhibition, Blackpool School of Arts

2017 Jazz exhibition, group show, Subterranean Arts, Ipswich

2017 Blackpool Art Fayre, Group Exhibition, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool