Anita Cummins

Anita Cummins creates abstract self-portraiture with everyday materials that are habitually used and collected over a duration of time. Food, drink and prescription medication packaging, tissues collected from therapy sessions and the inner coil unit of their twenty-two year old mattress make up the materials of this recent body of work. These materials are transformed using arduous and repetitive methodologies that resist the pressure of efficiency and productivity. Cummins' research resides in the exploration of neurodivergent, queer, antinormative and unproductive states as spaces for processing complexity and resisting conformity.

Anita Cummins is a white, neurodivergent and queer visual artist living on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm (Melbourne). In 2018 they received the Les Kossatz Memorial Award for their Honours graduate showcase. This led to their inclusion in the national graduate showcase Hatched at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, for which they were awarded the Schenberg Fellowship 2019. Recent exhibitions include 4am flaming arrows, Bundoora Homestead, Stimulus Package, Darebin City Council FUSE Festival, 2021, Some kind of mood, Cool Change Contemporary, 2019, Hatched, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 2019, feelings, Monash University, 2018.

anitamcummins@gmail.com