Born in the Netherlands, Anita Levering emigrated to New Zealand
in 1999. In 2011, Levering completed her Masters of Fine Art at
Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts.
Levering seeks to contribute to the field of contemporary painting
by harnessing the unpredictability of external forces and exploring
their transformative effects on the materiality of paint and the
course of the painterly process. By deliberately introducing events
and processes beyond her control, Levering allows a certain
disruption of both media and process to take place; a disruption
characterised by naturally occurring elements of addition,
subtraction, accumulation and dissolution. The introduction of such
forces minimises subjective gesture and distances the self,
allowing a heightened emphasis on what
Levering seeks to contribute to the field of contemporary
painting by harnessing the unpredictability of external forces and
exploring their transformative effects on the materiality of paint
and the course of the painterly process. By deliberately
introducing events and processes beyond her control, Levering
allows a certain disruption of both media and process to take
place; a disruption characterised by naturally occurring elements
of addition, subtraction, accumulation and dissolution. The
introduction of such forces minimises subjective gesture and
Levering herself describes as 'phenomenological transitional
processes'.
As such, Levering's works become the site of contact between the
intention of the artistic process and the random, spontaneous
nature of elements external to that process, with the result that
Levering succeeds in documenting a dialogue between artist and
nature that serves to draw out new connections in the viewer's
experience.
Levering's work is held in private collections in both New Zealand
and overseas, and she has exhibited in both solo and group shows in
New Zealand and the Netherlands.