Francisca Aninat
Francisca Aninat is a Chilean artist who lives and works in London. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Maryland (USA), and a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. She is now Professor at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago.
In 2006, she was awarded the Chilean government scholarship to complete further study at Central St Martins, where her installation Interior/Exterior Field was bought by renowned collector, David Roberts, for display at his Public Art Museum in Camden.
Aninat’s work is created by painting, tearing and re-stitching canvases, to create a large fragmented whole. The resulting works draw attention to the core materials of painting – paint, canvas, thread – and draw attention to the process of making art, standing in between the two-dimensionality of traditional painting and the three-dimensionality of sculpture, revealing the weight, fragility, transparency, and density of a painting. As well as paintings, Aninat has developed a series of hanging sculptures, which play on fragility and heaviness.
