Anna-Wili

Anna-Wili was born in 1980. The daughter of a puppeteer, she spent her childhood exposed to people making wonderful creatures. Anna-wili has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School. She worked for two years for Opera Australia as a scenic artist and has exhibited in small artist run spaces around Sydney. More recently her work was exhibited in the Anthropologie Gallery in New York. 
In late 2010 Anna-Wili created two large paper Pegasus sculptures for Hermès, to be exhibited in the windows of their new Brisbane store. Anna-Wili works mainly by commission. Her sculptures have travelled to the homes of people in Sydney, Melbourne, Paris, London, Toronto and New York.

Anna-Wili's sculptures are stitched together from archival cotton paper. Her works explore the organic qualities and resistance of paper, generating a tension between the complex realism of form and the limitations and economy of the materials used. They represent animal life in an immediate way that conveys the energy, movement and physical character of different creatures. Her aim is to engineer a moment of contact with nature in a way that emphasises both the startling differences and similarities of human and animal forms and consciousness.  Anna's paper sculptures are something I have always been drawn to, she takes natural paper and crates nature itself. Her sculptures when displayed are realistic and breath taking, they don't look exactly like the real animal but convay what they are perfectly. 

I took inspiration from them for our last project where we were asked to create a magazine for Birmingham City, it could be about anything, my group choses to look at old building in between Birmingham's big attractions. After seen theses beautiful sculptures come to life out of paper, I decided for the indent that we had to create to promote the magazine, we should have logos or buildings grow out of a paper map and high light that these places were there even tough not marked on a map.