Anna-Marie Lamond:

  • 2023-24 Mentor

  • 2022 Exhibiting Artist

  • 2020 Creature conserve scholarship recipient

Ajoloteria consists of works made with ink and watercolour, 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. The final outcome will be presented as a game with printed cards, boards and information booklet to coincide, 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 arts foundation for their solo members exhibition and includes a mural in the gallery, a display of the 40 Ajoloteria cards, an information wall about Xochimilco (the collaboration of the Chinamperos and the UNAM scientists) as well as 2 tables with the Ajoloteria games to play!! All the sales profits of the game will go to https://www.restauracionecologica.org/

It was a joy to welcome friends and family into the gallery to play the game and share the work.

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. Anna-Marie has exhibited across the U.K. and further afield, including recent solo exhibition Ajoloteria, ONCA, Brighton, 2024 and group show Re-Examining Conservation, at Brown University, Rhode Island, 2022. She has participated in the Guapamacataro Art & Ecology Residency, Mexico, 2021 and was artist in residence at the UCA Farnham for 2023-24. She currently lives and works between Hampshire and London.

Hampshire & London, UK

Instagram: @annamarielamond

Website: www.annamarielamond.com