ANATOL PITT

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Image credits:

Portrait by Rebecca Metcalf

Anatol Pitt, To fall into the void as I fell, Bus Projects, 2019. Image: Christo Crocker.

Anatol Pitt, In the present as were I still, VCA Grad show, 2017. Image: Christo Crocker.

Anatol Pitt is an emerging visual artist, writer and arts-worker based in Naarm/Melbourne. He has exhibited solo at Bus Projects and in group exhibitions at Kings ARI and Conners Conners galleries and won the 2017 Fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award. He works primarily across drawing, photography and video to think through the relationships between systems of perception, ecology, technology and history. Central to his practice is the close-up interrogation of surface and texture as sites of relationships and meaning.

Anatol holds an Honours degree in Anthropology (2020), as well as a Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology & Social Theory; Art History - 2014) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmedia - 2017) all from the University of Melbourne. Anatol participated in the 2017 Kings ARI Emerging Writers program and written essays for un Magazine 10.1 (2016) and, most recently, for Kati Thamo’s monograph Wingspan (2022).

As an arts worker, he has worked in a variety roles and organisations, including Gertrude Contemporary, Bus Projects, West Space, and Buxton Contemporary. He is currently the Program & Technical Manager at the Centre of Projection Art.

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