Annie Smits Sandano

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Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, I have since lived in New Zealand, Italy and the UK. Having completed my Fine Arts education at Elam School of Fine Arts with Honours and the Rhode Island School of Design in the USA, I have since exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the USA. Most recently I was based in London till coming back to  work between Hahei and Auckland in New Zealand.

Assembling, collating and hybridising to reconfigure visual vocabularies, I work across a variety of media. My first exhibited works were my wood block prints and I have extended my visual investigation and developed my practice into the area of painting  and most recently ceramics.

Recent acquisitions have seen works featured in The Wallace Arts Trust, The Hilton Group and the Deloitte Art Collection.

Other recent achievements include having a an installation selected as finalist and catalogue cover for New Zealand's 2019 Portage Ceramics Award, a piece featured in Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge’s private collection and having a painting selected as finalist for the Waikato Society of Arts 2022 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award.