Latest Shape collaboration: Anna's work The Political is Personal was exhibited as part of the 2025 Shape Open exhibition Rights Cuts Action. Exhibiting artist in ARMB Shortlist 9 exhibition, Artlink Hull & featured in our Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary Shortlist showcase at Tate Exchange.

Artist Statement: 

Anna Berry is a self-taught artist from the UK. Much of her work has been grassroots intervention in non-gallery environments and large-scale immersive installation, as well as, latterly, sculpture.
 
Her work encompasses a wide variety of processes and ideas, so it can be hard to pin down. It often involves non-archival materials, long repetitive making, and short-lived ephemeral outcomes, particularly in her early work. As such, her practice operates at the intersection of making, performance, installation, and recording. 

The work is responsive to place, community, and politics but is, more than anything, concerned with the nature and experience of reality. Her brain working a little differently has led to lifelong questioning about the nature of perception vs reality, what is knowledge, and what is truth.
 
As an outsider artist, she operates mostly outside of the artworld infrastructure, not because she eschews them, but because she is not visible to them.
 
Anna was born in Glasgow but is currently based in Milton Keynes. She is also a musician, writer, and photographer.

Breathing room (2014). kinetic installation, paper, wood, plastic, motors, batteries.

Check out Anna's website  See all the artists we work with

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Banner image: Fake Plastic Trees - 2016. Guerilla installation, plastic, steel wire, wood, photographs. Description: In black and white, a person stands with arms crossed in a low lit room. Faint strings and objects and hung filling the room.