Waxing Star (2026)
Produced by Counter Studio, Margate
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Waxing Star (2026) was created through an intensive, process‑driven collaboration that began with the Anya Gallaccio's long‑standing fascination with historic apple imagery.
Beginning with a series of studio photographs of individual apples – shot after Gallaccio arrived in the studio with a book of apple illustrations and a bag of fresh fruit – the final work combines inkjet underlayers with hand‑applied, pigmented varnishes, and ground pastels mixed into the surface. The result is a subtly intricate print that foregrounds the handmade, with each impression carrying its own character and the tactile presence of the artist’s process.
Waxing Star marks a rare moment of distillation: a print that captures Gallaccio's ongoing engagement with apples, process and material transformation, while acknowledging the challenge of fixing something from a practice that is usually in flux. Developed from photographs of individual apples and built through layered, hand‑worked surfaces, the print becomes a snapshot of her wider investigations into growth, labour and the passage of time.
Anya Gallaccio works at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and the natural world, drawing on organic and geological materials whose visible processes of change become the work’s subject as much as its medium. Her practice stages environments of slow transformation — curtains of apples, walls of pressed flowers, melting candles, felled trees, salt and chalk — where decay, growth and crystallisation unfold in real time, shifting an initial seduction into unease and reflection. Fundamentally process-driven and site-responsive, Gallaccio’s work foregrounds memory, labour and ecology, inviting viewers to witness change as an ethical, as well as aesthetic, condition.
Gallaccio (b. 1963, Scotland) lives and works between London and San Diego. She studied at Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2003 and has held major solo exhibitions at Tate Britain, the Palazzo delle Papesse, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Thomas Dane Gallery, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. In 2024–25 Turner Contemporary presented a comprehensive survey that restaged seminal works and a new site-specific commission, including a monumental felled ash, curtains of apples, walls of gerberas, melting candles, and a chalk-related commission responding to Kent’s landscape. Gallaccio is Professor Emerita in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego and is recognised internationally for her radical use of organic materials, her embrace of entropy, and her sustained interrogation of how art occupies space, time, and memory.