Ami Zanders: Journeys Through The Atlantic
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Bermuda National Gallery
Like most of us, Ami Zanders has found herself embracing technology in new ways over the last few months. Confined to her home in Liverpool under lockdown, she wasn’t able to access the materials she was used to working within her studio at university, and with no access to a computer, she turned to her phone.
The multimedia artist, best known for her yarn bombing works, soon found herself absorbed in the Stop Motion Studio App. She started playing around with it, creating short clips for fun. This soon led to a newfound fascination with stop motion animation and changed the direction of her final project.
Her explorations into the new medium impressed her lecturer at John Moore University, where Ami is currently completing her MFA, and they swiftly arranged for her to borrow the equipment needed to develop it further. The result is first her standalone project, Journeys Through The Atlantic, an experimental animation video that explores her Bermudian heritage, produced exclusively for the Bermuda National Gallery.
Click here to read the interview and watch “Journeys Through The Atlantic” on Stories, the BNG blog: https://www.bermudanationalgallery.com/journeys-through-the-atlantic/
Image: Still from “Journeys Through The Atlantic” by Ami Zanders, 2020. Animation.
