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
Annie Lok is a collage artist living and working in Mount Fairy, NSW on Ngunuwal Country. She has made the transition from traditional cut and paste methods into experimenting with digital technology, using personal and found photographs and constructing her artworks with computer applications such as Baazart and Adobe Photoshop.
Her artistic and academic journey so far has been fruitful, though not without complications. Partway through her post graduate studies in mid 2021 Lok suffered physical injury due to a workplace accident, rupturing the S1/L5 and L4/L3 discs in her lower spine. Having undergone non invasive treatments, medication as well as surgery to correct the problem, Lok still lives to this day with both chronic pain and physical limitations. This made permanent impressions on the artist – both emotional and physical – but more interestingly, on her art practice.
Her ongoing Rabbit Holes series developed out of a need for distraction, forming part of her arsenal for coping with these daily challenges. These surreal spaces - now numbering into the early 100’s – all have one thing in common: a female figure, falling into or out of a black void either entering or exiting an imagined space. They are an amalgamation of performance, social theory, symbolism and traditional picture making, adopting different compositional constructs achieved through the injection of colour and form to draw the eye around the picture.
These photo collaged worlds test our own boundaries relating to how we might react – physically, intellectually or emotively - when thrust into familiar and unfamiliar territories: does our trauma response activate or is it a welcomed escape from reality?
Lok is represented by fYRE Gallery, Braidwood, and lives with her husband and daughter.