Anna Farago is an artist and educator living on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm/Melbourne.

Frequently collaborating with fellow artists and local communities, Farago’s investigations are animated by feminist art histories, craft traditions, the intergenerational transmission of knowledge and experience of place.

Farago embraces a fluid and performative approach to making that incorporates craft, works on paper, painting and photography. She is interested in the formal language of textile design and it’s orientation to colour, geometric shape and line. Her work utilises femmage, a way of making with a centuries long history in which the artist incorporates scraps and leftovers and combines materials in collage.

Central to her practice is an exploration of ecosystems. Her work poses questions around ways in which we sustain material traditions, the intersection of personal and collective memory, and processes of constructing and reconstructing belonging.

EXHIBITIONS - Solo

2023
Patch, Loft275, Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Centre, 15 September - 8 October, 2023
2022
Threads, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, 3 December 2022 - 19 February, 2023
2019
Raw Edges, Post Office Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat, 14 June - 29 June 2019
#daddyasbirds, Long Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham, February 7 - March 3, 2019
2016
Stitching Place, Residents Gallery, Montsalvat, Eltham

EXHIBITIONS - Group

2023
SHE of body and mind with Nusra Qureshi, Walker St Gallery, Dandenong, 7 February - 31 March, 2023
2022
Crossovers with Hannah Maskell, Fivewalls, Footscray, 19 January - 5 February, 2022
Lockdown In & Out, Watsonia Library & Greenhills Neighbourhood House, funded by Banyule Council
2021
Bark, leaves, soil, berries: conversations on place, with Paradoxa Collective, Art Gallery 275, Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub
Satellite of Love: Perspectives from Bunjil Reserve, with Paradoxa Collective, Eltham Library Community Gallery
2019-20
Walking, Talking, Listening, Learning  with Paradoxa Collective, funded by Nillumbik Council
2019
Haus Werk: The Bauhaus in Contemporary Art, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park
2017
Pinpoint: Banyule Contemporary Art Fair, Hatch Contemporary Artspace, Ivanhoe
2016
Materiality Town Hall Gallery, Boroondara City Council, Hawthorn
No Woman is an Island, Blindside, Melbourne
2015
A Crafted History: People and Place, ArtSpace Realm, Maroondah City Council
2013
Looking Back Out, Ursa studiohouse, East Brunswick

Anna Farago is a member of Paradoxa Collective with artists Penelope Aitken, Siri Hayes and Susan Wirth.

QUALIFICATIONS

2019
Master of Arts, Federation University (Ballarat)
2015
Master of Visual Arts, Monash University (Gippsland)
2009
Certificate IV in Training & Assessment, Vocational Pathways
2003
Graduate Diploma (Graphic Design) with distinction, RMIT University
1993
Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts), University of Melbourne