Author: anna jacobson
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week Four
The weeks are flying by! I am putting the finishing touches on my video poems. This is a snippet from my work ‘Why is this Passover Night Different?’ There is always a full moon on Passover, as the Jewish holiday follows the lunar calendar. My mother’s Haggadah has intricate illustrations and I photographed the textures…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week Three
I’m writing about my creative process this week! Below are the photographs I took, documenting my family’s Passover Seder table. These photographs and visual records helped me write my poems. After the documentation and writing process, I then recorded my voiceover reading the poems. The next stage is to create the animations. I visualise what…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week Two
Below is my week two work-in-progress from my video poem ‘Why is this Passover Night Different?’, as part of MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency. I was inspired by the experience of cooking matzah balls with my Mum this year. To create this animation, I used digital collage techniques. I cut out the matzah ball shape…
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MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency – Week One
Welcome to my week one update! Below is an animation-sketch from the opening of my video poem, ‘Festive Meal’, which I am creating thanks to MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency. This looped sequence contains seventeen drawings! Usually I would peel twenty eggs for the Passover meal; one egg for each person. As we couldn’t celebrate…
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Museum of Brisbane -Artists @ Home Residency
I am very grateful to the Museum of Brisbane for selecting me as one of ten finalists for MoB’s Artists @ Home Residency. Over the next six weeks, I will work on writing and animating two video poems: ‘Why is this Passover Night Different?’ and ‘Festive Meal’, created from my home studio. These works are…
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Memoir through Poetry Workshop, 26 July 2020
I’m very excited to be running an upcoming online ZOOM poetry workshop through the wonderful Avid Reader. Book your place here. Join me online on Sunday 26 July from 1pm-4pm, as we explore using our memories as a springboard for writing poetry. This poetry workshop will include a talk about my experience of writing memoir…
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Finalist in the 2019 Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing
In 2019, I was honoured to be a finalist in the Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing. My drawing ‘Self-portrait while Depressed’ was exhibited at the Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art. I was going through a period of depression and decided to draw a series of self-portraits. Created over a thirty-four minute period, the process of…
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2019 Word for Word National Non-fiction Festival
The 2019 Word for Word National Non-Fiction Festival was directed by the wonderful Rochelle Smith and held at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre from 15-17 November. I was invited to be on a poetry panel (Rhythm and Language) with poet Andy Jackson, and facilitator of the panel David McCooey. I travelled with Mum from…
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Launch and Upcoming Author Events
Thank you everyone who celebrated the launch of my poetry collection Amnesia Findings with me at the Queensland Poetry Festival. I could feel your beautiful support filling the Judith Wright Centre. I had a wonderful time and it was a very special day. You can watch the video art screening that premiered on the day…
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Anna’s Book Launch Details – Save the Date!
Dear family, friends and lovers of poetry,The book launch of my first full-length poetry collection Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019) will be held on Saturday 24 August 2.30-3.30pm at the Judith Wright Centre during the Queensland Poetry Festival. My launch will be accompanied by a screening of my short poetry films. You can access the festival and launch…