Anne Numont creates informal geographies and landscapes that serve as mindful connections to place, self and society. Multidisciplinary, she draws, mixes media, makes paper and installation art. Syncretic in approach, references include migration, her Filipino heritage, Australiana, cubism, biophilia, technophilia, science and spirituality. An assimilated Australian, Numont identifies with a state of being in-between: the ambiguity, hybridity, inertia, loss and potential this space can manifest particularly around culture, the environment, perception and memory. Her creative practice, as a microcosm, attempts to integrate parts of herself that speak to the profound and macrocosmic forces of nature, humanity and technology.
In 2010, Numont reconnected with drawing as a form of creative therapy. Later that year she became a finalist in her first attempt at a professional art prize, The Dobell Prize for Drawing. After exhibiting at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Numont began to seriously consider her art practice. Up until that point, she graduated with Honours from UNSW Art & Design (2003) and progressed to a broadcast design career in television and digital media where projects she worked on garnered local and international industry recognition.
Since then, Numont's art has been selected and published in Curvy 8 (2012) which attracted over 1100 entries world-wide, a finalist in the Yen Art Awards Australia & New Zealand (2013), The Hutchins Art Prize Australia (2013), North Sydney Art Prize (2011, 2013, 2015, 2019 ), Cliftons Art Prize Asia-Pacific (2015), Hornsby Art Prize (2016 & 2017), Hunters Hill Art Prize (2017) and Northern Beaches Art Prize (2017). Her work has been acquired by North Sydney Council and private collections in Australia and overseas. She has exhibited at heritage and regional venues such as Mosman Art Gallery, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Incinerator Art Space Willoughby, the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability in Waverton and at Long Gallery, Salamanca Arts Centre in Tasmania. She was selected for and attended studio residencies at Primrose Park in Sydney (2016-2019), Gunyah in North Arm Cove NSW (2019) and Alfred St Artist Studio Program in Milson's Point near Sydney Harbour Bridge (2020-2022).
The artist acknowledges that her practice currently operates on the traditional lands of the Cammeraygal people and pays her respects to Elders past, present and emerging.