Reviews Anna Glynn Australian Artist

Comments on Glynn's short film "The Traveller" which won the Animation section at the International Film Festival Ireland 2010. It was selected for a number of film festivals in 2010 including: Dungog Film Festival & The Heart of Gold International Film Festival

January 2010 - Anne-Louise Rentell, Theatre Director, Merrigong Theatre Co. Illawarra Performing Arts Centre
"Anna always takes her viewer to a beautiful and magical place, made all the more exciting and compelling because of her sophisticated but playful engagement with the natural world."
"Wonderful...beautiful - love it!"

January 2010 - Dr Claire Manning BA MEd EdD
“The Traveller inspires all of us to look at our world a little differently. By surrendering to the precious moments, seeing what is good and learning more about ourselves we gain strength to face our everyday challenges.”
“Don’t let those precious moments fly by”

Glynn won the Historic Houses Trust Meroogal Women's Art Prize 2009 for her video artwork 'Verse Versus...’ It was a unanimous decision by the three judges and the first time a video artwork has won.
August 2009 - Judge Joanna Nicholas, Historic Houses Trust said “First Prize winner Anna Glynns’s video art work Verse Versus cleverly interprets a poem reproduced in a book from the Meroogal collection, with multi media, beautiful drawings and paintings, photography, sound animation and video-film.

July 2006 - Marjorie Lewis Jones – Insights Magazine
“...Glynn’s paintings, stories and music offer up layers: time, memory, nostalgia, the past and the present all find space to sing out, overlap, speak to one another and resonate with meaning. .......an enchanting tale … a tale well worth reading, viewing, listening to and becoming entwined in.”

May 2006 - Annabel Frost Australian Country Style
commenting on the book Strange Memories
“It is so beautiful. It’s the art I’ve always longed for, the book I’ve always hoped to find.”

May 2006 - Alan Gilmour reviewer for Australian Songwriters Association Inc. commenting on the CD Strange Memories
“...It has a beautiful, haunting and ethereal quality to it. .. It has a dreamlike quality,

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June 2006 - Anne-Louise Rentell
Theatre Development Coordinator, Merrigong Theatre Co. Illawarra Performing Arts Centre
“Anna’s stunning artwork, beautiful soundtrack and deeply personal narrative are each extraordinary evocations of one person’s response to place. Combined, they make a powerful and moving story of loss, childhood and the haunting power of the past.”

Australian Art Review excerpt article Art Export 2006

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