The Collective Dream, a body of work based on dreams

Annette Coleman mines the fragments of her nightly dreams to create layered works of art. Bringing seemingly disparate archetypes and symbols together with wax and pigments, she creates richly imagined landscapes of the unconscious.

Her concerns include “the images that occupy the dreamstate, the fragments we remember and the symbols that evoke the message of the dream.” She has recently been exploring the possibilities of a medium as mercurial as her dreams; using heat-sensitive film and a heated canvas, these collages transform before the viewer’s eyes