Anita lives and works on the unceded lands of the Wangal peoples of the Eora nation, (Sydney), Australia. Anita is an artist, art therapist, maker, educator and mentor. She works across a broad range of media and seeks out creative spaces in which to dive deeper into her own eclectic art practice, be it in a remote rural art residency in Finland, ancestral farmhouse in Slovenia or in a studio space within a Lighthouse on the eastern seaboard of Australia. Her art practice explores new ways of seeing, making and processing, and traverses site specific investigations and explorations into personal mappings of migration and movement that touch on the notions of edges, longings and voids. While these spaces cannot always be seen they are imagined and re-imagined often through mixed media installations.
Anita seeks out the architecture of collaboration and attunes to others whose artistic vision sits alongside her own. Creating visual playlists through songwriting, video, installation, paint, stitching, this personal language is shared through exhibitions, curatorial practices and her ongoing commitment to her studio investigations. As an educator in art therapy and art therapist in mental health settings, Anita affirms a strong commitment in maintaining areas of self -care through meditation, breath work, movement and making. She seeks out these moments when possible through art residencies, being in nature and exposure to cold water swimming and when possible combining these vital spaces in her world.