ANITA HOWARD
Anita is an Australian artist who expresses herself and communicates with the world through art. Throughout her life, she has worked as an art teacher in schools, striving to make that environment more welcoming than it was for her during her own childhood. Dyslexia has had a significant impact on her life, her relationships, and her worldview.
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2024
KNOTS
Nature, more specifically leaves in various forms of representation, is a very important reference in the artist's poetics. In symbolic terms, the garden, whether internal or external, becomes a safe place, but one full of transformations for the mind. Art is the mechanism by which every creative act gains consistency, as it is a dialogue between what the world can be, what it is, and how art can permanently point out paths of transformation, whether through the use of materials or the construction of images, in a permanent, limitless, and free research.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2025
SHADES OF COLOR
Working with the concept of color shadows allows one to delve into a world of possibilities regarding what is revealed and what remains hidden. There is a metaphorical game that leads to a reflection on the very meaning of art as a permanent possibility of stimulating observers of artistic works to seek differentiated answers, characterized by the creativity of the act of seeing that is symmetrical and even superior to that of making, because interpreting is a work as dense as establishing images that refer to subtle, fictitious, and dense worlds.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
2026
TOO MANY IDEAS
The image shows how a draft ceases to be a provisional stage and becomes the artwork itself, with dyslexia manifesting in the freedom of lines that refuse traditional alignment. Overlapping strokes and continuous spirals capture the speed of thought that overrides the rigidity of words. Strong marks and colors reframe school correction towards expression. Scribbled pages, mirrored letters, and fragmented texts merge the individual's identity with their creative process. Artistic creation, in this view, shows that non-linear thinking creates rich visual maps, where losing the north of the margins is a step towards finding one's own voice.
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Oscar D'Ambrosio
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VISUAL ARTS
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ANITA
We may not be able to do some things, but we have gifts that other people don't have.
