Anika Wilkins was born in 1982 in Lismore, Northern New South Wales. She completed her Bachelor of Photography in 2008 at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, specialising in Photographic Art Practice.

Her work is currently centred on the unmaking of furniture, which is a response to an entirely contemporary and unprecedented historical environment in which our notions of security and our faith in our means of achieving a sense of self-determination are in crisis” (Ray Cook, 2007). Artists such as Gordon Matta Clark, Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy largely inform this work.

Since Graduating, Anika has exhibited at the Queensland Centre for Photography, and was selected for Hatched, a highly competitive national showcase of graduating art students held at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, WA. Her work is represented in the Darryl Hewson collection, which was shown at the State Library of Queensland in 2008. She was also a finalist in the 2008 Win Schubert and Josephine Ulrick Photography Prize.

Currently Anika is developing a new body of work to extend on ideas she has approached in the past, and to form the foundation of the research she will conduct for her honours degree in 2009. www.anikawilkins.com