Anne Marie Power

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Anne Marie Power is a well known mixed media artist, textile educator and community artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia.Her work incorporates textile techniques, papermaking, printmaking, applique, collage, laser copy, drawing, painting and laminating.

She has been involved in the art field for 30 years as a practising artist and lecturer. She has travelled extensively, studying, presenting and attending workshops and conferences in Europe, Canada, the USA and Asia. She has exhibited in England, Italy, Russia, Canada, Austria, China, Switzerland, South Korea and Australia

Power is a trained art teacher who has been involved in the design and delivery of a variety of artist-in-residence projects in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions. She has also planned and overseen numerous successful community art projects, working with adults and children in a variety of settings.

From May 30 - June 10, 2006 she exhibited "Wise Reflections" at the Span Galleries 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne. Here she reflected on the common imagery and philosophy of Buddha and Christ, through an installation of embellished digital prints, music, projected images, revolving mirrored shrines, flashing religious icons, and holy souvenirs.

Long recognised as a leading contemporary Australian installation and textile artist, Anne Marie Power is notable for her fascination with new materials and techniques, her international outlook and her ironic sense of humour.

She has the ability to bring unexpected materials and ideas together in ways that are at the same time simple and sophisticated, joyful and disturbing, worldly and contemplative, satirical and serious, formal and chaotic.

Anne Marie Power's extensive travels throughout Asia and Europe form the basis of much of the work.

Selection of the 14 main works, each 50x65cm.11 Mixed media, including digital images embellished with embroidery, beading, commercial stickers and sequins. 3 revolving colour lit glass religious icons.

Also featured in the Exhibition was a "Holy Shop", where "heavenly goods are available at down-to-earth-prices"


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Collaborating with Netherlands artist Inez Fritschy, they devised Global Connection 3.3.03, a book form installation based on the contributions of 150 individual artists from 23 countries. Exhibitions of this took place in Geneva Switzerland and The Hague 2003,Santa Domingo The Dominican Republic, Jeonju South Korea, and in Melbourne Australia 2004.

In  2002 she exhibited for the "Global Fusions" exhibition at the Palais Porcia as well as artist in residence at Papierwespe studio in Vienna. She was one of 9 women artists representing Australia in Hangzhou China at the "Westlake Expo" in an Exhibition - Nu Horizons. She also presented lectures and workshops in Shanghai at Donghua Textile University.

The Telos Portfolio Series which specializes in International Textile Artists has published a book on her work.