{"id":11,"date":"2023-02-22T02:36:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T02:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2023-02-28T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T23:42:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Anica Gikovska is an Australian artist with a Macedonian background. She lives and works in Naarm\/Melbourne with a practice based in edible art and contemporary visual art encompassing mixed-media textured wall art and sculptures that combine natural and man-made materials. For Anica, creating art is an essential aspect of her being in which she doesn\u2019t limit herself with the materials she uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work has a strong connection with nature, which informs both the material and conceptual stories behind each sculpture. Her practice also draws inspiration from a space somewhere between her subconscious and super conscious mind;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cUsually I would get some glimpses during, or straight after meditation when I\u2019m most relaxed and content and in a state of pure joy\u2026&nbsp;Sometimes I reach that place when I start creating. I get lost in the process and just go with the flow, let my subconscious mind guide me. Most of the time I don\u2019t know how the final product will look like and that\u2019s the beauty of it. I love to experiment and push boundaries both with materials and concepts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anica Gikovska is an Australian artist with a Macedonian background. She lives and works in Naarm\/Melbourne with a practice based in edible art and contemporary visual art encompassing mixed-media textured wall art and sculptures that combine natural and man-made materials. For Anica, creating art is an essential aspect of her being in which she doesn\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anicagikovska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}