I develop and produce arts activities and events within diverse communities in order to bring people together, explore social and environmental realities, enjoy creative processes and help to amplify under represented voices. Most of my projects and commissions are collaborative and cross many media.

“Collaboration, creativity, and community engagement with great energy and sensitivity are at the centre of everything that Anna does. She has a wonderful way of finding the magical in the marginalised”

Professor Rachel Sara, Birmingham School of Architecture and Design

2023 Place Portrait Spike Island

An Engagement commission, developed over the past year in collaboration with Creative Youth Network alumni Caitlin Dawkes, Holly Humphries, Ryan Convery-Moroney and Tsipora St. Clair Knights.   

Place Portrait is a multimedia installation that examines the complexity of a specific area, as well as how people experience and perceive different places. The work explores Spike Island’s neighbourhood and includes interviews with local characters (both human and more-than-human), ambient sound, still and moving images, and found, reused and newly created materials. It invites us to connect with our locality and to re-think our neighbourhoods. For more info and exhibition times. Commissioned by Spike Island Arts and funded by WEVAA

2023 Bris Hill Arts Programme

A programme of arts activities taking place on the Concourse at Brislington Hill In partnership with Greater Brislington Together, Young Bristol and artists Amy Hutchings, Bex Glover, Jo Chalkblack, Katja Hornchen, Lucy Glasson and Luke Palmer. Commissioned by Bristol City Council & WECA High Streets grant.

We used the activities as inspiration to co-design and co-create new artworks for the area as a collaboration between Anna, Bex & Luke.

2022 Environmental Keywords Project

Participatory workshops in Barton Hill, Easton, St Philips & Hartcliffe, bringing together academics from multi disciplines, community organisations, including the Bristol Disability & Equality Forum, Eastside Community Trust and Heart of BS13 with creatives to determine how research can support communities equitably with climate change impacts and the cost of living with the Centre for Environmental Humanities & Earth Sciences Dept, at the University of Bristol

2021 Acts of (In)visible Repair, the latest iteration of Lizzie Philps’ GPS Embroidery project, explored the unseen but essential networks within the urban environment of Exeter. We invited women and girls from different parts of the city to help us create GPS embroideries around the concept of repair. Through community mapping “walkshops” and an immersive audio performance, we shared the small but important ways we can enable biodiversity to thrive. One of six commissions from “Outside- the- Box” which explored outdoor performances as a pandemic response. Part of Lizzie’s artistic team along with Frances Merriman, I co-designed workshops, created an immersive audio track for the performances and made films for the Make Tank exhibition.

2020-2022 Home Print Project/Mobile Print Project With Spike Print Studio & Amy Hutchings, we produced printmaking packs and community based workshops with video and printed resources for young carers, disadvantaged families and refugees, partnering with Carers Support Centre and Bristol wide refugee support agencies.

Qualifications

• MA Independent Film & Video, London School of Media
• BA Fine Art (Sculpture and Media), Slade School of Art, UCL
• ILM Management for Creative Practitioners
• Community Organisers Certificate

Artists Networks

• Art within the Cracks
• Bricks Bristol Studio Holder at St Anne’s House, St Anne’s Road, BS4 4AB
• Spike Island Arts
• ArtSpace:LifeSpace