Layers and Light
Anna Jacobson
- Sitter: Anna Jacobson
- Medium: Digital Artwork
- Dimensions: 91 x 61cm
- Representation: This artist represents themselves
- Categories: Female Artist, Digital
About the artwork and sitter
This colourful and thoughtful digital self portrait shows artist Anna Jacobson sitting in a world of her own creation.
Called “Layers and Light,” she describes it as a “…self-portrait of how I see the world – heightened observations that appear in layers of symbolism, light colouring surfaces.
“In my art, I like to turn spaces into layered fantasy scapes – reaching worlds that only I can sense exist. The images I digitally create capture a parallel of what I see within these spaces. By adding and removing elements with layers, colours, and light, I get closer to revealing possibilities of what lives within the subconscious of these spaces.”
About the artist
Anna Jacobson is an artist and poet from Brisbane. Her poetry collection Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019) won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. She was awarded a 2020 Queensland Writers Fellowship and was a finalist in the 65th Blake Art Prize and 2019 Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing.
“I like to turn spaces into layered fantasy-scapes, reaching worlds that only I can sense exist.”
Behind the scenes
I like to turn spaces into layered fantasy-scapes – reaching worlds that only I can sense exist. The images I digitally create capture a parallel of what I see within these spaces. The four work-in-progress images show my progression and experimentation, on my way to finding the final image. By adding and removing elements with layers, colours, and light, I get closer to revealing possibilities of what lives deep within the subconscious of these spaces.
