Anna-Marie Lamond:

• 2023-24 Mentor

• 2022 Exhibiting Artist

• 2020 Creature Conserve Scholarship Recipient

Ajoloteria is based on the traditional picture card game of Mexican Loteria. Highlighting the plight and conservation efforts of the critically endangered Mexican Axolotl at Xochimilco, Mexico City - Anna-Marie adopts the game as a basis for the series of paintings that depict elements of the ancient wetland and its human and non-human inhabitants with each picture-card relating to its Xochimilco equivalent. Ajoloteria is presented as a game with printed cards, boards and information booklet to raise awareness to the critical and precarious situation of the shrinking ancient wetland ecosystem, and current conservation efforts of the wild Mexican Axolotl.

Ajoloteria was selected by ONCA Gallery, Brighton, U.K. for solo exhibition in 2024. The show included a mural in the gallery, a display of the original ink and watercolour Ajoloteria series and an information wall about Xochimilco (specifically the collaboration between Chinampero traditional farmers and UNAM scientists' efforts to protect the Mexican Axolotl). With Ajoloteria games to play and purchase in the gallery, all the sales profits of the game went to https://www.restauracionecologica.org/

Anna-Marie Lamond studied MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, graduating in 2019, and adopts a methodology of drawing as ecological activism. Concerned with the wildness in the in-between-patches and ecotonal environments - she focuses the ‘slow gaze’ of drawing as facilitation to connect multi-species relationships and aliveness itself in an entangled, biodiverse web.

Website: www.annamarielamond.com