2025 Place Portrait St Anne’s

A multimedia collaboration representing elements of St Anne’s, through the eyes of artists, this playful exhibition explores the concept of ‘portrait’. Most of the work was made in spring 2025 and can be viewed as ‘snapshots’ or ‘sketches’. I invited artists Holly Humphries, Caitlin Dawkes, Jo Chalkblack and Anastasia Dahl to contribute new works and collaborate with works in progress.

The idea for Place Portrait exhibitions comes from many years of creative work with different communities. A lot of this work has focused on helping local people share their stories, especially about their environment, changes, and regeneration. Visit St Anne’s House page for more images.

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2023 Place Portrait Spike Island

Place Portrait Spike Island 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. Commissioned by Spike Island Arts and funded by WEVAA developed in partnership with Creative Youth Network alumni Caitlin Dawkes, Holly Humphries, Ryan Convery-Moroney and Tsipora St. Clair Knights.   

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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.

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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.

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2021 Acts of (In)visible Repair

Part of Lizzie Philps’ GPS Embroidery project artistic team along I co-designed workshops, created an immersive audio track for immersive audio performances and made films for the Make Tank exhibition exploring the unseen but essential networks within the urban environment of Exeter. Through community mapping “walkshops” with women and girls, we shared the small but important ways we can enable biodiversity to thrive.

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.