Annie Lok, Rabbit Hole #99, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.
Annie Lok
Gallery 3
Friday 11 July - Sunday 3 August
Opening Thursday 10 July 2025, 6pm-8pm
Into the Void is Annie Lok's third solo exhibition, featuring new works in her ongoing Rabbit Holes series. This surreal offering is a collection of collaged worlds each featuring a female figure – or an 'Alice' – moving gracefully or awkwardly through the black void placed within these imagined spaces.
Lok's art practice is twofold: heavily influenced by her academic interests, she tackles the female experience through social, political and art historical lenses and as a gateway into escaping the reality of her discomfort. In mid-2021, partway through her postgraduate studies at the ANU School of Art and Design, Lok suffered physical injury due to a workplace accident, rupturing the S1/L5 and L4/L3 discs in her lower spine. Having undergone a myriad of non-invasive and invasive treatments, the artist lives with both chronic pain and physical limitations.
Lok’s Rabbit Hole series has been created digitally, but her interest in collage stretches back to traditional forms of cut-and-paste and proto-photographic image manipulations. Lok is heavily influenced by female art practitioners such as Jess Johnson, Lucy McRae and Sally Smart for their investigations into body politics, futurism and technology, channelling their aesthetic and artistic prowess to make considered, captivating artworks.
Drawing on personal and found imagery, Into the Void presents collages that bring together Lok’s interests in performance, social theory, and symbolism to create compelling worlds that explore and test our physical, intellectual and emotive boundaries. When thrust into unfamiliar spaces, how might we negotiate the space between a trauma response and a welcomed escape from reality?
Lok is represented by fYRE Gallery, Braidwood, and lives with her husband and daughter.