Anne Krinsky combines practices of painting, print, photography and video with archival and geographical research, to investigate overlooked structures in natural and man-made environments. She is fascinated by the passage of time and the ephemeral nature of the physical world.
She has been working on an international project about vulnerable wetlands and climate change since 2018, when she documented Thames Estuary wetlands during a residency with METAL, in Southend-on-Sea. She since has progressed her research through grants, residencies and exhibitions in the UK, US and Germany.
The artist says, “I am drawn to habitat edges – where water meets land, where fresh water meets the sea and in the interface between nature and human activity. I am interested in recording both the beauty of – and human impacts on – fragile habitats. I use my photographic documentation as a starting point to create work in other media, including print and video installations. In responding creatively to wetlands and watersheds, I hope to raise awareness of climate threats.
I have worked with my video archive of wetlands, watersheds and waves to make Boiling Seas Acid Seas. I have used high-key unnaturalistic colours to conflate ideas of beauty and peril, but have not altered the sound. In filming wetlands in the shadow of highways, I became interested in the divergence of image and sound and what the sound revealed about the location beyond the frame.”