Anna Carey is an Australian artist based in Los Angeles whose work overlaps photography, model-making, film and drawing. Through memory and imagination, she creates fictive architectural spaces based on familiar iconic architecture which she photographs. The camera lens magnifies the model with all its imperfections and reminds the viewer that the photograph has been constructed with a miniature materialised object. This aims to reawaken imaginations for the viewer by creating a space of stillness and reflection for one to drift between reality and daydreams – for rediscovering the universe that is inside ourselves.
Top left: Anna Carey’s ‘Psychic Advisor’ (2022) is a finalist in Nillumbik Art Prize.
Top right: Anna Carey’s ‘Everything you imagine is real’ (2022) is in Metro Arts‘ group show Precision.
Bottom right: Anna Carey’ 84 Frank Street, Surfers Paradise…now (2015) is in HOTA’s Lost in Palm Springs group show, image via HOTA’s Education Resource.
Bottom left: Anna Carey, Orange Sun (2017), Giclée print, 86.7 x 130 cm.
Three artworks from Carey’s Psychic series have also recently been acquired by Soho House Downtown Los Angeles.