Desolate Sea Ed. 2 of 10

This work was created for entry into the Centre for Creative Health Inaugural Art Prize. The work responds to the theme, 'Healing', and was selected as one of 40 finalists in the prize.

Desolate Sea explores the fluid, non-linear nature of physical and mental healing, and the ebb and flow of regenerating or reconstructing fragments of the body and mind along the way. This work accepts healing as a multi-faceted process that can lead to new ways of experiencing and feeling the world around you – a process that can at times be isolating, unsettling and unfamiliar.

"Desolate and empty is the sea,

and I take my bruises with it.
Grains of sand scrape across my open wounds,
before falling back into the deep water.
Everything touches me,
but nothing sticks.

By morning these wounds will heal,
but the grains of sand that scraped across my open wounds
will be churned up by waves and transported to a distant shore -
fragments of my healing that will never fully heal.

Desolate and empty is the sea."

**PLEASE NOTE these works are printed to order at a fine art print workshop in Adelaide. As such, there may be a delay of 1-2 weeks before dispatch**

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Anna Révész is an emerging, Adelaide-based artist working across several mediums, with a particular interest in photography and the opportunities it presents to capture, relive or totally reinvent moments in time. Révész explores the interchange between past and present moments and attempts to navigate spaces of instability and uncertainty. Utilising both digital and analogue photography she also explores ideas of memory and how it is created, sustained or reconstructed. Révész allows room in her works for contemplation and reflection – a slowing down of pace that becomes an antidote to the fast-paced nature of modern existence.

Révész is a graduate of Flinders University and Adelaide College of the Arts (2019). In 2020 she was awarded the Linden New Art Award at the Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition, subsequently showing her first solo exhibition, Architecture of Memory at Linden New Art in 2021. She recently undertook a mentorship with Hossein Valamanesh (Helpmann Academy Elevate Mentorships 2021). In 2021 she was a resident at Praxis Artspace Studios, and in 2022 she was a resident at 215 Magill (both opportunities via Helpmann Academy).

Révész's latest solo exhibition, Divine Machina (Praxis Artspace, July/August 2022) explored the melding of human and artificial intelligence through photography, poetry and installation.