Artist Bio

Anne Robinson is an artist/filmmaker who lives and works in East London. Her practice is mainly film based, often collaborative, and concerned with the perception and politics of time passing,’queering’ technologies and working speculatively with archives to ‘listen to the past’. In summer 2022, she was in residence at Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, responding to an exhibition of works by Monica Sjöö, working with traces of accused Scottish ‘witches’ through drawing, sound and moving image. The Hurrier (2021), Wakeful (2018) and Thrashing in the Static (2014) draw on Scottish Kirk Sessions minutes and war diaries to expand moments in hidden lives. Screenings and installations include APT, CCA Glasgow, Whitechapel, and Southwark Park Galleries with recorded/live scores, collaborating with percussionist Limpe Fuchs and Breathing Space. Formally, these works test the boundaries of documentary and experimental form. And is interested in the construction of ballads as a way of making new stories. For The Hurrier, she made a sci-fi folk ballad and ‘broadside’ print, and organised a conversation/podcast with The Feminist Library, on Art, Class and Bodies as well as the short, single-screen work Poor on the Roll. Anne was a commissioned artist in Queer Times (2018) at GoMA and is a former member of See Red Women’s Workshop and co-author of See Red (Four Corners, 2016). Work by the collective is in ‘Women in Revolt!’ at Tate Britain, Scottish National Gallery and Whitworth, 2023 – 2025. Published articles include ‘Real Women: Common Birds’ in Katy Deepwell’s Feminist Art, Activisms and Artivisms (2019). Her films feature in Rachel Garfield’s book Experimental Filmmaking and Punk (2021) and associated screenings, incl. ICA and E-Flux as well as in the Rebel Dykes documentary (2021). She was part of the curating group for Supernormal experimental arts festival from 2012 and has been in numerous shows and museum projects nationally and internationally, hold a practice-led PhD, and supervises research in Fine Art at Middlesex University.

Still from: The Hurrier (2021)