Utopian Spaceships Landing in an Inbox Near You

Anna Marie Savage is very excited to launch her latest painting collection, Utopian Spaceships online from her website on Thursday 19 October 2023. She describes it as a bright and bold collection of pieces that portray the beauty of the Irish border as seen through Willy Wonka type glasses-a colourful, bright positive land of hope that now reveals alternatives, a border, bright and humming with a kind of electricity.

Anna Marie Savage is an award-winning visual artist based in Omeath, Co. Louth and is a Fine Art graduate of the University of Ulster, where she received a First-Class Honours Degree in 2009. In 2019 she was accepted for Drawn from Borders, which was part of the ‘Understanding the Decade of Centenaries’ project in collaboration with the Nerve Centre and the Tower Museum, Derry and Artlink, Co. Donegal. This led onto her acceptance to Frontier Work, which was shown in the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny in January 2022, curated by Garrett Carr. 

This new body of work, Utopian Spaceships is a continuation on from her previous Próiseas collection but is a completely separate entity both in its approach and artistic process. She has translated parts of the imagery of Próiseas and moved it forward, simplifying shape and form through a combination of screen-printing, mono-printing, cyanotype and painting. She has approached this work in a more poetic, idealist manner. The original concept, of Próiseas, was the intrusion, surveillance and presence of the Army watchtowers. This new body of work has evolved into a complete juxtaposition that evokes a feeling of utopia. She wants the viewer to be immersed in the bright, sometimes fluorescent colour palette and be submerged into another world. A world of beautiful shape, design and colour palette… ‘an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect’. 

This world is her way of overlooking the past, ignoring the greyness and forgetting about a place where there was a constant overhang of shadow. She wants the viewer to look at the beauty of the Irish border landscape and embrace a new terrain. A new land of hope and positivity, buzzing with bright and colourful opportunities for the future and brimming with possibilities. 

Utopian Spaceships will be released online from her website on Thursday 19 October 2023 at 12.00pm with exclusive preview access to her newsletter subscribers on Tuesday 17 October 2023 at 12.00pm. You can visit her website to sign up for early access here www.annamariesavage.com