ACV Studio

Anna Varendorff

Melbourne, Victoria 

Anna Varendorff is a mid-career practitioner (as per artisan’s published definitions) and work as an artist, craftsperson, designer and academic. She studied and began her practice in Brisbane, where she lived and worked for a decade before moving to Melbourne, where she has continued to commit her energy to her creative practice. Varendorff work regularly between Melbourne and Brisbane: creating public works for Brisbane City Council, UAP, private commissions and with a regular exhibition practice, including a 20+ year ongoing relationship with artisan. Varendorff makes sculpture and installations, small run furniture for exhibition, and she produce handmade products under the name ACV studio. Across all of these platforms she is curious and concerned with feminism, the politics of labour, and the revolutionary capacity of handmade objects. 

Varendorff’s artworks have been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2016), National Gallery of Victoria (2013, 2024), Salone de Mobile Milan (2017, 2018, 2019), and in many other private and public spaces. Japan is of special interest to her work. She participated in an artist’s residency in Onishi, Gunma in 2016. She has travelled there many times, specifically to visit art sites and festivals.

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