Roots:

Anna grew up in Melbourne, one of seven children. At the age of thirteen business took the family to the UK where they settled just north of London in the old Roman town of Verulanium, now St Albans. Anna completed a foundation course at the Hertfordshire College of Art prior to studying Hotel and Institutional Management at Oxford followed by a year at the Cordon Blue School in London.
In 1983 Anna returned to Australia, choosing to live in Sydney - her home of the past 20 years, where she married and raises her daughters.
Prior to refocusing on her art practice, Anna pursued a successful business career.
In 2003 Anna graduated from the National Art School with a BA in Fine Arts and was awarded the Robin Gibson prize for outstanding work.
In 2004 Anna won 1st prize in the Tyree-Tycan “Works on Paper” Exhibition.
Anna has held exhibitions at Robin Gibson, Quadrivium and at Barry Stern Gallery (Maunsell-Wicks)
In June 2005 Anna’s work “Nuordrashore circa 1815” received an honorable mention as runner up in the “Art on the Rocks” Exhibition, as well as winning the Peoples Choice Award.
Artist’s Statement:

Anna’s work is embedded in the landscape. Her recent work consists of assemblages made with the found object. Anna seeks out materials that elicit a particular emotive association and beauty. The objects themselves have integrity because of their history. She strives to give the materials an equal footing and lose their individual character by being evaluated against each other. By creating, recycling and juxtaposing these fragments as assemblage, a process of metamorphosis occurs, uniting the disparate elements into a visual language which explores the concept of truth to materials while simultaneously usurping that concept.

Exhibitions:

2001 and 2002 Works on paper Camberwell School of Art- UK
2002 Group Exhibition drawing “Cell Block” NAS
2003 Group Exhibition drawing “Cell Block” NAS
2003 Graduating mid-year Group Show – “Dabs & Slabs”
3RD Year Graduation exhibition.
2004 Robin Gibson Gallery New Talent Recent Graduates
2004 Quadrivium QVB Sydney Metal Element Seven
2004 Tyree-Tycan Works on Paper Berrima District Art Society. 1st Prize
2004 FONAS “Infusion” NAS
2004 Barry Stern Gallery
2005 Art on the Rocks. Special commendation & Peoples Choice prize
2005 Barry Stern Gallery “New Growth”
2005 Finalist ANL Maritime Art Prize and exhibition Melbourne
2005 Finalist Cromwell Art Prize
2005 Finalist Paddington Art prize/Peoples Choice prize
2006 Art on the Rocks Finalist
2006 Finalist Blake Exceptions Exhibitions
2006 Sacre Coeur Alumnae Art Show Melbourne
2006 ANL maritime art Prize and Exhibition Melbourne
Commissions:

1998 Glencore Australia Pty Ltd. 5 works on paper, Cumnock Mine
1998 Murals for Double Bay Public School
1999 Murals for Rose Bay Public School
2004 Peppers Hotels Launceston Tasmania
2005 Tryptich for Foyer No 1 Wallis St . Woollarah
2005 Compass group Paris France
Collections:

Glencore Australia Pty Ltd
Private collections Sydney, London, New York.
IPOH Investments Malaysia