ANNE BASQUIN

I’m a writer, photographer, and artist based in Leigh near Te Hāwere-a-Maki in Aotearoa, New Zealand. I grew up in the Midwest and Great Lakes region of the US and Otepoti Dunedin in the South Island. I moved to the Hauraki Gulf in 2021. I have a BFA in Printmaking from the Dunedin School of Fine Arts and a Master of Creative Writing from Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland.

My work has a strong ecological thread and I am especially inspired by the ocean. The hours I spend underwater inform my thinking and my art practice. I am interested in situating myself within the wider ecological field and making a record of change in our era.

Lately, I’ve been playing with 35mm film again (above water) and shooting underwater video footage at Goat Island Marine Reserve. I am also at work on a novel about humpback whales and our changing oceans, and a series of essays on girlhood, migration, miscarriage, and healing trauma with saltwater.