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Laser Cut (Etching, Screenprint)
Media Dimensions: 55 x 70 x 45 cm
Image Dimensions: 55 x 70 cm
Unique work
"Do you not feel vulnerable putting yourself on display like that?” I work directly from CT, MRI and flatbed scans of my own body. Fragmented into a sequence of slices and surfaces, I re-materialise these images as physical works that occupy space. Analytical images are screen printed, etched and laser-cut into steel, and re-assembled as something mechanical and modular. A living thing is transformed through these processes, becoming diagrammatic, simplified and ordered. I’m interested in the relationship between the flat and the three-dimensional, the technological and the organic, and how this corresponds to the language of both print and medical imaging, where bodies are flattened, pressed, sliced and transferred. "You were the one receiving the information, not the one giving it.” These bodies fall into one another, both connected and disconnected, held still at the point where they can rest against each other and find balance. Fragments of a single body become multiple bodies. They appear and disappear, as the relationship between positive and negative continually shifts. It’s the empty space that pulls me in. It makes me think of the unknown, what’s out of reach and can’t be seen on the surface. Anna Mays (b. 1998, Dublin) is a London-based artist. She recently completed an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art, having graduated from the University of Brighton with a BA in Fine Art Printmaking in 2020. She has received the Muse Gallery 2027 Residency Award, the 2026 Batsford Books Fine Art Award, for which she was named Overall Winner and the State of the Art Graduate Award 2020 from Printmaking Today.
Laser Cut (Etching, Screenprint)
Media Dimensions: 55 x 70 x 45 cm
Image Dimensions: 55 x 70 cm
Unique work
"Do you not feel vulnerable putting yourself on display like that?” I work directly from CT, MRI and flatbed scans of my own body. Fragmented into a sequence of slices and surfaces, I re-materialise these images as physical works that occupy space. Analytical images are screen printed, etched and laser-cut into steel, and re-assembled as something mechanical and modular. A living thing is transformed through these processes, becoming diagrammatic, simplified and ordered. I’m interested in the relationship between the flat and the three-dimensional, the technological and the organic, and how this corresponds to the language of both print and medical imaging, where bodies are flattened, pressed, sliced and transferred. "You were the one receiving the information, not the one giving it.” These bodies fall into one another, both connected and disconnected, held still at the point where they can rest against each other and find balance. Fragments of a single body become multiple bodies. They appear and disappear, as the relationship between positive and negative continually shifts. It’s the empty space that pulls me in. It makes me think of the unknown, what’s out of reach and can’t be seen on the surface. Anna Mays (b. 1998, Dublin) is a London-based artist. She recently completed an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art, having graduated from the University of Brighton with a BA in Fine Art Printmaking in 2020. She has received the Muse Gallery 2027 Residency Award, the 2026 Batsford Books Fine Art Award, for which she was named Overall Winner and the State of the Art Graduate Award 2020 from Printmaking Today.