Golden Lands of the Sunny South – e.g.etal, Melbourne, 2015
Victorian Craft Awards – Craft, Melbourne, 2017 (winner Chairman’s Prize and People’s Choice Award)

Golden Lands of the Sunny South is a large mechanised diorama which can be manipulated by handles, cranks and pulleys to play out a fantastical narrative. The diorama features a fictional retelling of colonial exploration in a strange, altered landscape - fused with the pomp and ceremony of Elizabethan tradition. Characters and props can be removed and worn as individual jewellery pieces or displayed as objects.

Using images of kitsch Australiana found on old biscuit tins and historical imagery printed on to metal, Anna examines the idea of “Australian-ness” and the issues of colonialism and multiculturalism that make up the Australian cultural identity. Rearranging and reconstructing the printed images, Anna creates hybrid creatures and alternative tableaux: both as cultural commentary and as humorous acknowledgement of the hybrid nature of contemporary Australian society.