Próiseas 19

Fine art giclée print on 310gsm Hahnemühle German Etching. Limited edition of 150.

• Museum-quality inks and paper
• Archival lifespan of up to 200 years
• Includes a certificate of authenticity
• Your purchase directly supports the artist 

Artist's Statement

My practice is rooted in the investigation of identity - personal, cultural, historical, and ecological. Working through fieldwork, microscopy, and site-specific research, I explore how memory, language, land, and place contribute to the shaping of the self and the collective. My work often reflects a kind of romanticised preservation: of heritage, of ecosystem, and of emotion linked to geography. Living and working on the border, I’ve become acutely aware of psychogeography - how landscapes and contested spaces imprint themselves emotionally and psychologically on individuals. This ever-present sense of place, dislocation, and tension becomes embedded in the work, often through quiet gestures: mapping invisible systems, tracing decay and renewal, and capturing fragile ecologies under the microscope. My recent focus on water samples and microscopic life represents an extension of this inquiry, bringing together the poetic and scientific, the internal and external.

I am presently working on a project in conjunction with Leeds University which focuses upon the study of Petro-Culture around the Illicit Fuel Economies to be found along the borders in Ireland and Mexico. Uisce Salach is the Irish for 'dirty water' and is concerned with the illegal dumping from the illicit fuel industry in our local rivers on the border and highlighting the environmental impact that the fuel economy has had on our rivers and the rest of our aquatic ecosystems.

Biography

Anna Marie Savage is an Irish visual artist who lives in Omeath, Co. Louth, Ireland. She was born in 1966 and is a Fine Art graduate of the University of Ulster, where she received a First-Class Honours Degree in 2009. In 2019, she was accepted for Drawn from Borders, which was part of the 'Understanding the Decade of Centenaries' project in collaboration with the Nerve Centre and the Tower Museum, Derry and Artlink, Co. Donegal. This led onto her acceptance to 'Frontier Work', which was shown in the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny in January 2022 and was curated by Garrett Carr.

In 2023 Savage was awarded the Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and showed at the Ulster Academy’s 142nd Annual Exhibition in Belfast. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Wexford Emergence Award and selected to show at the BEEP Painting Prize Biennial 2024 in Wales. This year (2025) she will present two solo shows in An Cultúrlann, Belfast and the Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny, Ireland. She is presently collaborating on a project with Leeds University on an illicit fuels project and its damage to the environment on the Mexican and Irish borders.