A body of work consisting of paper cuts portraying wildlife, highlighting the urgent environmental challenges they face. These challenges threaten their survival, leading to a gradualdecline in their populations until they vanish completely.
In November 2024 Anja unveiled for the first time an edition of papercuts as a homage to this old Swiss tradition and since then her art practice has solely focused on papercutting wildlife. The artist has had a love for traditional Swiss papercuts ever since her childhood and her illustrations have long been inspired by this artform. A workshop in Switzerland in 2018 gave her the confidence to explore papercutting within her art practice. Anja’s delicate papercuts depict wildlife in her distinctive graphic style using patterns. The patterns unravel into lines, echoing the message of wildlife being in danger of becoming extinct and disappearing in front of our eyes.
