Delighted to be included in the A+D ANNUAL EXHIBITON at UNSW Galleries in Paddington.
Some of my photographic work SCENES FROM THE FOREST has been included as well as 3 of my works from the installation work ARBORETUM.
Exhibition runs until Sunday December 19, 2021. Open from 12-5pm daily.
Cnr Green Road and Oxford St Paddington, NSW Australia.
Delighted to have been invited to take part in this years EDEN ‘UNEARTHED’ exhibition. Launched last night by Meredith Kirton / curator, and Simon Ainsworth / owner and Costa Georgiadis / media presenter. It is a privilege to be one of 35 artists having works in these wonderful gardens. Entry is free.
Please follow the link below to book a ticket.
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/eden-unearthed-art-in-the-gardens-tickets-192965845037?ref=eios
Photography by Brian Rapsey.
(clockwise from top left) Sticks and Stones by Elizabeth West, Seed Bank by Sally Kidall, Refuge by Saskia Everingham, and Fools’ Gold: Prospecting in the Garden by Selina Springett and Alessandro Berini.
an exhibition exploring time as a multi-dimensional fabric
challenging the concept of a linear continuum… through a range of mediums, the artists engage with definitions and expand perceptions through processes of layering, capturing, cycling, measuring, reversing and conflating moments in various structural frameworks of perception, anchored by particular events but waving in the breeze of time
POSTPONED UNTIL 2022 DUE TO COVID
Delighted to have an upcoming solo exhibition at Barometer Gallery in Paddington.
Would love to see you there if you are able to pop in.
Barometer Gallery 11am - 6pm Tues- Sun
April 30 - May 9 2021
13 Gurner Street Paddington
Delighted to have been selected to exhibit in the Eden Unearthed 2019 exhibition, with a list of other artists, showing 40 outdoor works in all.
Exhibition is located in the wonderfully landscaped gardens adjacent to the nursery, at 307 Lane Cove Road, Macquarie Park NSW 2113, running for 6 months from August 1, 2019 thru to January 31, 2020.
Sculpture By The Sea Bondi 2016
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Artwork: Turf Wars, Anne Levitch Image: A Shot Above Photography
From a young age our desire to have ownership over our own space is engrained into us and as we get older owning our own property is a widely celebrated milestone.
Sydney artist Anne Levitch draws on this idea of ownership in her Sculpture at Scenic World piece Turf Wars; an artwork she hopes will bring attention to the fragmentation of community which occurs when land is divided and sold.
“Natural habitats and ancestral homelands are broken up and divided, but evidence of connection remains.” says Anne. “Land is broken up, divided and fenced, then we create synthetic versions of nature to our liking, often without relationship to the surrounding environment.”
Following a successful career spanning more than two decades, Anne draws inspiration from her experience in architecture and design when creating her artworks.
As a multidisciplinary conceptual artist, Anne has used materials and design to create layers of symbolism in her artwork, Turf Wars. The synthetic turf is a metaphor for nature versus the manmade, while the puzzle shapes draw comparison to our human desire to create order from chaos.
However, Anne still wants the viewer to bring their own interpretation to this multifaceted piece, “as it has layers of meaning depending on the standpoint”.
You can see Anne Levitch’s Turf Wars for yourself at the 2019 Sculpture at Scenic World exhibition in the heart of the Blue Mountains.
Sculpture at Scenic World has transformed the ancient rainforest to an open-air gallery, showcasing 25 works along Scenic World’s elevated boardwalk daily until May 12, 2019.
This year’s free public program also features an array of kids’ activities and access to TRACKS, a trail of outdoor artworks exhibited at iconic Blue Mountains locations.
Visit www.sculptureatscenicworld.com.au for more.
10th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award - Winners and Acquisitions
27 May – 12 July 2019
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY DOWNTOWN GALLERY
Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2 Collins Square, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3008
Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm
Displaying the winners and other acquisitions from the last ten years of the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, this exhibition provides a fascinating snapshot of contemporary sculpture.
Curated by Leanne Willis and Claire Muir, Deakin University.
Sculpture at Scenic World 2019
Turf Wars, 2018
Cementatious composite, synthetic turf, dimensions variable. Image: Keith Maxwell
Viewers are encouraged to bring their own interpretation to this installation, as it has layers of meaning depending on the standpoint.
Turf Wars draws attention to the fragmentation of land and the concept of ownership. Natural habitats are broken up, divided, fenced and tamed into synthetic environments of our liking, where we strive for ownership. However, while we create boundaries around our own precious patches of ‘turf’, others are being turfed from their ancestral homelands.
While fragmentation is inherent in so many forms, from partnerships, to families, to communities, ethnic groups, countries, and nations, a vestige of the relational whole remains. Division and establishment of boundaries and fences is a constant, however the pieces, while separating and disparate, still show the remains of connection to a greater whole.
As children, we are drawn to putting puzzle pieces together. As we grow, the complexity and scale of the puzzles increase, however the desire to create order from chaos remains. We can grow apart, be torn apart, but collective memory and the desire for wholeness persists in our consciousness.
Meet The Maker. Anne Levitch Sculptor.
House & Garden Magazine. Volume # 2018
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HIDDEN IN ROOKWOOD SCULPTURE WALK 2018
Artists set up masterpieces for Sculpture by the Sea.
By Elizabeth Fortescue.
Artist Anne Levitch‘s huge jigsaw puzzle is made out of astro turf. Picture: Jonathan Ng
Bowie Klaiber, 6, and friend Felix Horth, 6, playing with Anne Levitch's Sculpture by the Sea work called Turf Wars. Picture: Jonathan Ng
It was a puzzle, but these youngsters soon put together a fun afternoon out in a rare burst of sunshine this week. Six-year-old mates Bowie Klaiber and Felix Horth, from Bronte Public School, were checking out Turf Wars at Tamarama Beach, part of this year’s Sculpture by the Sea, which begins tomorrow.
There are more than 100 artworks the 2km clifftop trail between Bondi and Tamarama on show until November 4. Pymble artist Anne Levitch was among many artists installing their work on the beach.
Levitch’s piece, Turf Wars, was partly about how buyers “scrabble” for a little piece of Sydney real estate, and partly about global border disputes.
And yes, the seven jigsaw pieces fit together. But there should be eight. “There’s always a piece missing from jigsaw puzzles,” Levitch said. “I wanted it to be interactive.”
Picture: Jonathan Ng
The annual festival of art and kitsch features 100 works of art arranged along the spectacular coastal walk.
By Jack Fisher and Teresa Tan.
OPENING - SAT, 4 AUG 2–4PM
WHEN - 31 JUL - 18 AUG 2018
WHERE - GRACE COSSINGTON SMITH GALLERY
ADDRESS - 1666 PACIFIC HWY, WAHROONGA NSW 2076
HOURS - MON TO FRI, 10AM–5PM, SAT 9AM–4PM
PHONE - +61 2 9473 7878
The Grace Cossington Smith Gallery is delighted to present Sentient Visibility. Artists Rox de Luca, Ella Dreyfus, Annelies Jahn, Pollyxenia Joannou, Anita Larkin, Gillian Lavery, Melinda Le Guay, Anne Levitch, and Mollie Rice explore the use of traces as ways to engage with the sentient consciousness of the immediate or distant past, held within the visible present.
This exhibition brings together work from emerging, mid-career and established artists who have sought ways to engage with the sentient consciousness of the immediate and distant past held within the visible present. The works explore temporality, identity and memory, on a sensory level. They capture moments in time, forsaking direct representation for symbolic visual language.
The exhibition was curated by Anne Levitch, current Master of Art student at UNSW Art & Design.
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018 Artists Itamar Freed (UK/Israel) & Anne Levitch (NSW) are both working with a material called Jesmonite. Invented in 1984, Jesmonite is making its debut appearance this year in Bondi in two completely different ways.
Sculpture by the Sea’s Site Manager put Anne and Itamar in touch upon hearing they were both looking at using Jesmonite, a material traditionally used for building facades and matching heritage details.
Itamar Freed’s sculpture for Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018 ‘Whispering to Venus (self-portrait as Venus)’ is a collaboration between the artist and an algorithm. The work will be constructed utilising a mobile 3D scanner to capture himself posing as Venus, after Botticelli’s iconic painting ‘The Birth of Venus’. The sculpture will be created through a computer controlled machine in jesmonite concrete and resin to more closely resemble classic Greek sculptures.
Freed said, “the ‘old masters’ are actually my greatest teachers. I learn from them and from art history, by repeating, being inspired by and studying their work. It’s interesting for me to mix mediums and work, between ‘old masters’ and new technology – like our world which is all mixed up. By looking back to the past one can learn a lot about the future.”
Waiting for her jesmonite to arrive from Shropshire, England, Anne Levitch decided on the material after considering plywood, aluminium, steel, glass reinforced cement. With Anne’s background in the built environment, jesmonite proved to have benefits in its longevity, was lighter than cement, was cost effective and had the capability of being used in harsh outdoor environments. Even better were its properties of being non-toxic and its ability to have a natural stone-like appearance.
For Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018, Anne Levitch will be producing 9 pieces-puzzling to create order from chaos, the work references the constant flux of individuals and communities coming together and breaking apart. While some are buying their own patch of ‘turf’, others are being ousted, ‘turfed’, from ancestral homeland.
The work alludes to the fact that we are all tied into a greater subdivision of a whole, where we all own a patch of this earth. Anne’s work, ‘Turf Wars (2018)’ will be located on Tamarama beach- her pieces organically coming up out of the sand.
Anne Levitch, ‘Turf Wars’, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018. Artist’s mockup.
Itamar Freed, Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2018 ‘Whispering to Venus (self-portrait as Venus)’
'Reality TV'
UNSW Alumni Award winner Reality TV by Anne Levitch. Photo: Clyde Yee
Sculpture by the Sea: Reality TV frames Tamarama Beach
21 OCT 2016 FRAN STRACHAN
A laser-cut, room-sized metal sculpture referencing reality TV has won a major UNSW prize at this year’s Sculpture by the Sea.
Anne Levitch’s metal sculpture, Reality TV, incorporating decoratively laser-cut portrait frames that reference 18th century drawing rooms, has been awarded the UNSW Alumni Award.
As a significant sponsor of Sculpture by the Sea, UNSW provides a $5,000 subsidy to a UNSW alumni artist each year.
Levitch wanted to create a work that encouraged public interaction and engagement. She said the addition of the portrait frames allows people to take photos of themselves and others.
“Centuries ago we used to hang pictures of our ancestors in our drawing rooms and look at them, but now we hang massive TVs on our lounge-room walls and look at ourselves,” said Levitch, who is a postgraduate at UNSW Art & Design and a former lecturer in UNSW Built Environment.
“The sculpture references reality TV because it is literally a box that allows passers-by to enter or walk around, peak inside, and further engage with if they so desire. There is also the ambiguity of who is the observer and who is the observed, that comes into play just like reality TV.”
Levitch said the sculpture quite literally frames the present in its prime position at Tamarama Beach, while the decorative laser-cut details are a nod to the past.
The winning design was selected by the Dean of UNSW Art & Design, Professor Ross Harley, who said Sculpture by the Sea is the perfect exhibition environment for Levitch’s work, which explores the relationship between art, space, natural and constructed environments.
“Congratulations to Anne for her attention to detail and for her continuing exploration of the possibilities for contemporary sculpture,” Professor Harley said.
“Visitors have the opportunity to encounter, move around and interact with Anne’s intriguing work, individually, as part of social gathering and within a spectacular environment and setting. Her work stimulates curiosity and encourages exploration and close examination.”
Twelve other works by UNSW graduates make up the more than 100 sculptures featured in the 2016 Sculpture by the Sea. They include Alice McAuliffe, Harrie Fasher, Kate Fennell, Louis Pratt, Margarita Sampson, Mitchell Thomas, Paul Selwood, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Simon Hodgson, and Sophie Clague.
Sculpture by the Sea transforms the 2km coastal walk between Bondi and Tamarama beaches into a temporary sculpture park annually. The free exhibition runs until 6 November 2016.
