Objects of Desire

Opening Thursday 25th June 6-9pm as part of Late Night Art Bangor.

Anna Brown is an emerging visual artist based in Belfast. She completed a BA in Fine Art

at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, graduating with First Class Honours in 2025.

Specialising in printmaking, she works primarily with experimental photographic

processes, translated through screen-print. Since receiving her degree, she has

exhibited her work in local galleries including Platform Arts, Arts for All, and Queen

Street Studios. She was longlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Award and received the

Seacourt Print Workshop Graduate Award, where she is currently a member and staff

member. Supported by this award, she has continued to develop her practice with

access to specialist workshops and resources.

STATEMENT

My work explores visual culture and materiality, taking inspiration from film and fashion

aesthetics via subversive imagery and atypical surfaces. I am interested in the

conscious and subconscious ways people manufacture themselves, making their own

false realities. The ways we present ourselves and the objects we surround ourselves

with carry meaning: identities are constructed and consumed, the boundaries between

real and fake become hazy. Creating my own archive of staged photographs, I work with

image manipulation and collage to add layers, distorting the originals purposely. These

unresolved moments are left ambiguous, keeping the narrative open to interpretation.

Working with contrasting tactile elements; hard and soft; transparent and opaque;

creates an interesting juxtaposition. I work on unorthodox surfaces, adding printed

layers while allowing the qualities of the material itself to influence the outcome – a

balance of artificial and natural.