"The things I make stem from years of collecting, writing and drawing. From camping and walking in enormous and quiet places, from reading and researching, from living in the country and tending to animals, birds and people…

Peters’ Gooches Lane garden and menagerie;
Geometric shapes in Helen’s hand-stitched quilting;
Leaf litter, grass stems, twigs and pods from a Kimberly camping trip;
Dad’s tools from his much-loved shed, now filling drawers of my workshop."


Artist Bio
Anna Clynes completed a Graduate Diploma in Education, The University of Melbourne, 2004. Prior to this she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Gold and Silversmithing), RMIT University, 1996 and Honours at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, 2000. Since 2004 Anna has taught in the jewellery department, NMIT TAFE, Fairfield. She has also been a part-time caretaker at Pastoria East Wildlife Shelter since 2006.