Anne Bullock
Dancing Wind Studio

Biography

b. 1954 Colorado, USA

Anne Bullock, the Artist Anne Bullock is a multi-media artist who works from her Dancing Wind Studio in Southeastern Washington State. Her affinity for the environment impacts her art and processes.

The artist grew up on Colorado’s Western Slope, but has lived in Washington State for the past 35 years. After 12 years as an elementary teacher, she pursued advanced study in Teaching and Teacher Education with special emphasis in Art Education at the University of Arizona (1988-1992). During her study, she was involved in research related to middle school teaching methodology for teachers of art. She assisted with the Discipline-Based Art Education program of the J. Paul Getty Institute in 1989. More recently she has taught ceramics and ceramic sculpture at Walla Walla Community College and Walla Walla University.

Bullock’s works are responses to world and personal events: these explorations might be in any media—clay, earthworks, acrylic, paper, wood, drawing, pastel, or mixed media. Her work is about connection—piecing together, juxtaposing concepts, and melding parts to evoke ideas.

To see the artist’s working studio and art visit www.abullock.com.

“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.” --Wassily Kandinsky

“I work with broad themes relating to social justice, concern for the environment, and global peace. My expression emerges from a place within myself that has a strong need for connection—piecing parts into a whole.
Uniting materials through a variety of processes gives voice to my themes of honoring the earth, its beauty, its resources and its inhabitants.” --Anne Bullock

Statement

As a multi-media artist, Bullock focuses on honoring the earth and its inhabitants. Connecting participants to space and materials is her means to meld art and social action. Whether individuals are collaborating in an earthwork memorial, creating sacred bowls in workshops, or in studying a pastel diptych, her art bridges viewers to issues of aesthetic, civic and global significance.

Influenced by global events, Bullock’s work is also inspired by the aesthetic and spiritual traditions of Native American Indian and Japanese cultures; she attributes her approach to the deep-seated and mindful appropriation of resources as well as the reverence for nature held within these cultures.

As a means to an end, Anne Bullock believes art’s role in society raises social and global awareness. This artist’s paradigm builds on the interface between our modern and technological existence and its relationship to nature. Embedded in Bullock’s themes are both global and soul-seeking solutions for a sustainable environment relating to possibilities for global peace.

Bullock’s work builds upon the power of art and art-making to raise consciousness about the environment, peace and social justice.

Inspiration

“One of the remarkable qualities of our American Indian Basket Collection is its living history--a perspective shared by traditional weavers. A basket never begins with the people, or the object itself, but rather a place: the spirit, the land, the water, the sky the animals. For, as the elders themselves profess in unison, ‘All living things emanate from this gift of the creator, including the materials that become the baskets. Let us give thanks.’”

--from the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (Spokane)