About Anna Glover
Anna Glover (aka Gina Van-Lore) is a multidisciplinary visual artist, creative practitioner, teacher and ecologist. Born in Czechoslovakia, and currently based in the North-East, UK, Anna’s artwork takes a critical view point on social, political and cultural issues, focusing on ecological context.
“Without much notice we are becoming a botherless mass in an extreme speed of life; headlessly running toward globalisation, creating great collision of man-made industry against the nature, which is going to leave us face to face with ourselves.” - Anna Glover
Parta II, Mackie’s Corner
In 2018, Anna took over one of the Mackie’s Corner units in Sunderland city centre for a solo exhibition of her work. “It was turned into what resembled a giant installation: all gold and lushness, sumptuous and extravagant, luxurious and enticing.” - Barrie West, Conceptual Artist
As part of the Sunderland INDIE collaborative exhibition in Mackie’s Corner in 2019, Anna presented an exploration of her childhood and adolescent memories in Slovakia. Three masks; each one a delight of the skills of recycling and re-purposing, a practice learned by Anna at the knee of her Grandmother.
“Inside every mask there is a woman trying to escape.”
Anna Glover on ArtyParti
Recorded in front of a live audience at Mackie’s Corner on Friday 20th September 2019, Anna shared about her own practice, how she responded to the space as a curator, and reflections on how the cities across the U.K. could better use and utilise spaces like Mackie’s Corner.
“[Mackie’s Corner] is a really quirky space. An old, unused building, it’s not just a white cube, and it does give you the problem of fitting work. You have to use creativity to your best. Every time exhibitions have been here, every panel have been used in different ways. To have been given to us as it is, it’s similar to my own art - taking something which is almost discarded, and making it into something beautiful.” - Anna Glover
“Being at Mackie’s Corner just shows you how many commercial units there are available in Sunderland which are free and empty, and how well they can be used by artists to showcase their work.”
