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Anna Hutton makes drawings and prints that hover between representation and abstraction. They are informed by her response to the wild landscape where she lives in rural Norfolk. A sense of emergence and the indefinite runs through her artistic practice and is carried in her choice and manipulation of material. Her charcoal drawings are fragile and time-consuming as she works over and over the paper surface adding, removing and smudging charcoal and making tiny stippled dots until a balance is found between the ground of paper and her pigment. This activity speaks of a shifting landscape and of nature’s gradual process of loss and renewal. There is an unease to her images and a physical vulnerability to her drawings as the disintegrated charcoal clings only loosely to the paper. Underlying her practice is an awareness of the increasing fragility of our natural world and a question of her own resilience.
Anna was born in Edinburgh in 1972. She lives and works in Norfolk, UK.
Group exhibitions
2025 40 Dimensions: 5-26 April, &Gallery, Edinburgh
2024 Drawing Exhibition at the Arctic Circle, Galleria Napa, Rovaniemi, Finland @lapland_international
2024 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
2024 Derwent Art Prize, gallery@oxo, London
2023 ING Discerning Eye, selected by Chris Levine, The Mall Galleries, London
2023 Drawing (Paper) Show, Bridewell Studios and Gallery, Liverpool
2022-2023 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London touring to Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery, Basingstoke and ArtHouse, Jersey
News
Directory of Drawing Artists Drawing Paper Show
GroundWork NetWork Associate GroundWork Gallery dedicated to art and environment, King’s Lynn
Education
2002-03 RHS General Certificate in Horticulture, Capel Manor College London
1997-98 MA Museology, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia
1993-97 MA (Hons) History of Art, Edinburgh University
1991-92 BA (Hons) Painting completed 2nd year, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
1990-91 Foundation Art and Design, Bristol School of Art