About

Anne O’Connor is an artist and photographer. Her work includes traditional imagery as well as contemporary, with the extension of the traditional into art. This latter field encapsulates a sensory response to nature, is impressionistic in style and promotes an essence of place rather than a recorded documentary. She is heavily influenced by the environment and is attracted by light, shade, relationships, colour, texture and form. Her images invoke a sense of rhythm and are aligned with nature and the seasons, providing continuance rather than closure. She is also attracted to photo-journalism recording on film, events that have a sense of time and place with a story that is about culture and lifestyle.

Tasmanian born, Anne has her own affinity with the island. She has travelled many places within mainland Australia, living nine years in Darwin. To Anne, Tasmania is her home and her inspiration.

She is mostly self-taught. Learning as a child from her father the rudiments of composition, camera techniques and darkroom skills. Anne uses the camera as a tool to develop her art rather than a paintbrush. Her work is captured entirely in the camera on site with minimal modifications to the images digitally. Another side to Anne is her training and work as a social worker. This gives her the ability to see things from a sociological perspective and has a bearing on the way she creates her images.