Anna Jacobson - How to Fly
Anna Jacobson
How to Fly 2022
digital collage printed on canvas
How to Fly, How to Observe, How to Dance and How to Rest are from my series Self-portraits at the Paua Shell Tree. I created shining trees made from Paua shells by capturing their formations on my scanner. I bought the shells at a market in New Zealand one year, and the shells remind me of my adventurous self.
I rarely travel, but these luminescent shells take me to magical places where I can be creative and am inspired to acknowledge my passions and different ways of being. I have represented myself in watercolours – a medium that I love for its inability to be contained.
About Anna Jacobson
Anna Jacobson is an artist and poet from Brisbane. Amnesia Findings (UQP, 2019) is her first full-length poetry collection, which won the 2018 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. She was a finalist in the 2021 Brisbane Portrait Prize, 65th Blake Art Prize, 2019 Marie Ellis Prize for Drawing and 2009 Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture. She won the 2021 Out from the Mist Australian Asia Film Group Prize for her short video work ‘Setting Free Anxiety like a Fistful of Birds’, and her film was screened on AusAsia TV. Anna was also commissioned to create a video poem for the MAD poetry project, which was a new partnered poetic film initiative, co-presented with Survivors of Suicide & Friends for Mental Health Week 2021.
In 2020, Anna won the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing (Open Creative Nonfiction), was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship, and was shortlisted in the Spark Prize. She was also selected for a Museum of Brisbane 2020 Artists @ Home Residency. In 2018 she won the Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award. Her writing has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies Anna’s poetry chapbook The Last Postman (Vagabond Press, 2018) is part of the deciBels 3 series. Anna’s writing often stems from her lived experience of mental illness, specifically around an episode of psychosis that she experienced a decade ago at the age of twenty-three, and her resulting anxiety and depression. She finds expression for all facets of herself in her art.
Anna is currently in her last year of a PhD candidature at QUT, specialising in memoir writing. She holds a Master of Philosophy in poetry (QUT 2018), a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies (UQ 2019), a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Creative and Professional Writing) (QUT 2015), and a Bachelor of Photography with Honours (Griffith University 2009). Her website is www.annajacobson.com.au
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