'Stop everything and pursue what you want to pursue. Now is the time' - Annie Hogg's creative journey [19]

Annie Hogg is a visual artist based in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. After graduating with a Diploma in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork in 2001 and a BA in sculpture from Aki College of Art in The Netherlands in 2002, Annie worked and lived in environmental protest camps and learned organic horticulture. 

When Annie Hogg was in art college, her interest in the environment was dismissed as not being 'real art', causing her to abandon her art practice.  Twenty years later, her work gravitates around the themes of solastalgia, ecopsychology and transformation. She uses plants, soils, stones, shells and found bones in her art practice, creating pigments and charring foraged objects from the landscape as a votive action to create paint and sculpture. She has won several awards, residencies and art grants, most recently was the winner of the K-Fest Arts Festival in Killorglin Co. Kerry.   

Annie talks about:

• Her early concern for the environment


• Her work being dismissed as not being a worthy theme for art during art college


• Leaving her art practice for twenty years


• The importance of drawing and mark making


• Deciding to become a full-time artist


• Book illustration


• Return to fine art and sculpture


• Learning to extract pigment from the landscape


• Charring


• Family connection


• Foraging


• The impact of industrial farming


• Smell


• Sculptural work


• Collaboration for her installations


• Inspiration behind Lost - what happens in a landscape after the land has gone through conversion to an industrial scale farming model. Specifically a system of long established native hedgerows.


• Solastalgia - the emotional or existential distress caused by environmental changes


• Her deep sorrow over the loss of the local hedgerows and her guilt about not trying to stop it.


• Her studio


• Research


• Her next project inspired by soil will incorporate sound


• Grant Applications


• Rejection


• Advice


• Creating titles for her solo exhibition, Blood, Bone, Rust and Stone, using her father's Technical Graphics Textbook

Annie also teaches workshops both online and in-person. Contact Annie or see her work on:

www.instagram.com/anniehogg_thewidhedgeinkco

www.anniehoggstudio.com

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Artists who inspire Annie include:

Pierre Soulages

https://www.pierre-soulages.com/

Jesse Jones

https://www.jessejonesartist.com/

Aideen Barry

https://www.aideenbarry.com/

Books:Caroline Ross - Found and Ground A practical guide to making your own foraged paints

https://www.instagram.com/foundandground/

Heidi Gustafson - Book of Earth A guide to Ochre pigment and raw colour https://www.instagram.com/heidilynnheidilynn/

'Dreamtime' by John Moriarty

https://www.lilliputpress.ie/author_post/john-moriarty

Contributors to LOST:

Natalia Beylis sound artis

thttps://www.nataliabeylis.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nataliabeylis/

Adrienne Diamond glass blower

https://www.glasssocietyofireland.ie/user/adiamond/

Sinead Brennan of Glint Glass Studio

https://www.instagram.com/sineadbrennanglass/https://www.instagram.com/glintglassstudio/

Mick Wilkins on bronze

http://wilkinsart.ie/

https://www.instagram.com/mick_wilkins/

Other mentions:

Flora Arbuthnott of Plants & Colour

https://plantsandcolour.co.uk/

https://www.instagram.com/plants_and_colour/ 

James Horan was the friend to whom our lecturer told“You have to put in the work to make the work”

https://www.jameshoransculpture.com/

https://www.instagram.com/jameshoransculpture/

LOST exhibited atSouth Tipp Arts Centre (as a result of Residency Award ‘22/’23)

https://www.southtippartscentre.ie/K-Fest

https://www.kfest.ie/

blood bone rust & stone exhibited atLily Gallery Beara

https://www.instagram.com/liligallerybeara/

And Cahir Arts

https://cahirarts.com/

Annie attended a three-week soil research residency in 2023 with 

https://www.live-art.ie/