Anna Harris is an artist based in Cornwall, UK. Her work revolves around gathering materials from the landscape, particularly from intertidal zones – liminal spaces where materials seem to exist between the human and nonhuman, between object and material. This informs her sculptural work, becoming alchemically fused into ceramic trace-fossils, or lost to the geological furnace of bronze casting. Her drawing practice, too, tends towards the sculptural, describing strange, unreadable forms which then buckle and warp as the paper itself is subjected to the same watery processes as the gathered material. In all, drawing and sculpture accumulate to a disrupted taxonomy of unreadable, and perhaps unknowable, things – things that topple the anthropocentric tendency to overlook the ‘inert’ nonhuman, de-centralise the human point of view, and encourage us to look closer at the material agencies around us.
Exhibitions
Everything is everything (March - April 2023) – group show at Daisy Laing, Penzance
Flamm (October 2023) – visual art festival in Redruth
Spirit of Cornwall (October 2023 - January 2024) – open exhibition at Royal Cornwall Museum
Shaping Objects (July 2023) – group show at ALMA Artspace, Newquay
Rapture (June 2023) – group show at Tremenheere Gallery, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens
Unseen Workers (May 2023) – group show at Oxford Town Hall
The Unsteady Now (March - April 2023) – group show at Penwith Gallery, Porthmeor Studios, St Nicholas Chapel (St Ives) and Ocean Studios (Plymouth)
We Are Floating in Space (February - June 2023) – group show at Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange, Penzance
Connections (November - December 2022) – group show at The Poly, Falmouth
A30 (June - July 2022) – group show at No 20 Arts, London
Drawn to Wildlife (June - July 2022) – group show at Cornish Bank, Falmouth
Absolute (May 2022) – degree show, Falmouth University
Meander (April - May 2022) – interactive space designed and made with Tate Emerging Artist Platform, Tate St Ives
Curious Amalgam (March - April 2022) – joint display with Izzy Eastick, Falmouth University
This Is Who I Am (February - April 2022) – volunteers’ exhibition, Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange
Miniatures (January - February 2022) – group show at Grays Wharf, Penryn
Introduction (October 2021) – group show at Goldfish Bowl Gallery, Falmouth
Keskorra (September - October 2021) – group project with CAMP, screening at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives
In Your Hands (July - October 2021) – part of Forced Collaboration, Newlyn Art Gallery
Chaos, Connections and Collaboration (May - August 2021) – Tate Collective Producers exhibition, Tate St Ives
Miniatures (April 2021) – group show at Grays Wharf, Penryn
Streetview 2 (April 2021) – Falmouth
So Far Yet So Close (April 2021) – Falmouth University Arts Festival, online
Streetview 1 (February 2021) – Falmouth
Deconstructing, Reconstructing (September - October 2020) – Tate Collective Producers exhibition, Tate St Ives
Common Ground (May - June 2019) – Foundation Degree final exhibition, Oxford Brookes University
Features/Publications
GWER (March 2023) – featured artist
Haiku Zine (December 2023) – art and text, publication by Coin-Operated Press
FRONTPAGE/BACKPAGE/CENTREFOLD (November 2022) – art and text, publication by Flock and CAMP, distributed at British Art Show 9
Moon Press (March 2022) – art and text, publication (Issue 6: Ephemeris)
Yew Magazine (May 2021) – featured artist, online magazine
Yew Magazine (January 2021) – featured artist, Instagram
Padstow Brewery and Bulletproof Brewing lager collaboration: Hop, Skip and Dance packaging (2020)
Tate Collective (September 2020) – Instagram takeover for Deconstructing, Reconstructing, Tate St Ives (@tatecollective)
Collectives/Collaborations
Tate Emerging Artist Platform (February 2022 - March 2022)
Keskorra (September - October 2021) – group project with CAMP, led by Kei Langley
Down to a Fine Art podcast – host, co-creator and editor (2021 - present)
The Collaborators, Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange (2021 - 2022)
Tate Collective Producers (2019 - present)
Residencies/Awards
Cultivator Skills Development Grant (October 2022)
Cultivator Graduate Start-Up Award 2022
Residency at CAST (June 2022)