Conceptual nominee

Iota chronicles the sacred geometry of the moments of being that exist in-between, and refuse, definition. Nothing is finite here, shapes and bodies move in and out of focus, a manifestation of mortality itself.

Iota is a meditation on the planes of female youth and sexuality, veiled or expressed by individual and body. Faces are mirrored, parallels in expressions and ideals. The nude body is obscured, existing between spiritual oppositions of light and dark, denying objectification.

Iota captures the crux of individual identity; an amalgamation of time, memory, body and soul.

Iota is a series of experimental and alternative method self-portraits, made using hand-made negatives and processed using photogram print-making methods.

Roma Anderson is a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours student at the Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland, New Zealand.

Roma is an avid analogue and digital alternative method artist, she never does things quite in the way they are conventionally done. She is particularly interested in politics of female representation in cinema, and the roles of spectator, voyeur, auteur and character in film. She also is interested in the agency of environments and how they are valued aesthetically and politically; she is currently involved in documenting the estuary where she grew up.

She has taken part in several group shows including Amalgamation (2016) and 4x4x4 (2017) at the Projectspace Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand. In addition, she was included in the exhibition for, and awarded Merit in, the annual Malcolm Smith Gallery Estuary Art and Ecology Prize for her photograph Liminal (2017).