Queensland
Peter Annand
Peter Annand (1949) lives in Brisbane. He has English literature and law degrees from Queensland and Oxford universities and is undertaking a Master of Visual Arts by studio practice at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
His photographic practice explores the interface between human culture and the rest of the natural world. It emphasises the role of the viewer, through interactive formats and installation. The work is meditative in nature, often aiming to dislodge preconceptions and engage the viewer in contemplating simultaneous, conflicting viewpoints.
His series Fig Trees, comprising eleven large images of fig trees in urban situations around Brisbane, was exhibited at QCP in 2006 and forms the basis of an ongoing project entitled Street Trees.
Box, which was a finalist in the 2008 Libris Awards for Artists Books, is a loose leaf folio of 35 sheets able to be hung, in any order, from magnetic wall hangers. The images include television stills and fragments of poetry, selected according to a colour sequence. They are accompanied by a booklet containing a statement and the full texts of the quoted poems.
City, exhibited at QCP in 2008, is an installation of three series of images based on the colour sequence of Tibetan prayer flags. The viewer takes a contemplative walk around the installation which presents an image of a city whose fundamental characteristic is change, whose discord, greed and urgency are subsumed, which is simultaneously inhabited by people, plants and insects and which exists in the midst of climatic and tectonic forces and in the context of geological time.
