“When I make figures, a comment often made, is that my pieces teeter. I don’t set out with that intention, but they do. Somehow they are on the verge of falling or floating or disintegrating. Perhaps they echo my sense of being like a fish out of water - an outsider unable to catch my breath in company. With that in mind, I have placed a fish in a pram on a bed of sticks as a measure of my discomfort. Most of my pieces are about the human condition from the perspective of a melancholic outsider, viewing the Anthropocene and all that that implies.” - Annie McIver
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
The Uses of Sorrow
Someone I loved once, gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to realise that this, too, is a gift.
- Mary Oliver
Opening Event Photos by John J. Scott
