Anna Marris

Anna Marris is taking over the artist studio until December, as the recipient for the Platform Alumni Residency Award 2024.

Marris’ works The Mines at Sorsk were shortlisted for exhibition as part of the Platform Graduate Award by CVAN (Contemporary Visual Arts Network) at Aspex Portsmouth in 2021.

How can we use the landscape to learn about our ocean? During this residency, Marris will investigate how our ocean’s vast but hugely significant circulations can be reimagined through creative intervention to bring attention to its life-sustaining importance in regulating global climate. Where land meets sea, the behaviours of the ocean are felt strongly. By tapping into Portsmouth’s coastline, Marris will investigate the local geography, its geology, its people and knowledge to reframe the landscape alongside ocean research. Adverse weather and rising sea levels pose an ongoing threat to the area and there is an increasing urgency to address our relationships with the climate crisis.As an artist whose work is heavily influenced by scientific data and imagery, her practice explores complex fields of research in order to make science more accessible. Through printmaking that extends into tactile sculptural and audio-visual works, Marris tests the different ways science can be reconstructed and activated through new perspectives about our place on the planet.

About the artist

Anna Marris is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in traditional and contemporary printmaking and extending into sculpture and installation to test the potentials of research-based creative practice.

Anna graduated from BA Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton in 2021, where she explored connections in art, science, and technology. In 2023, Anna graduated from MA Print at the Royal College of Art and was awarded a Distinction in my Critical and Historical Studies dissertation titled ‘Exploitative Extraction and Perspectives of Power: An essay investigating perspective through archives, contemporary art practice, and fictional narratives in the representation of resource extraction’, in which she investigated the role of creative intervention to address complex issues entangled with resource extraction in imagery and archives.

Find out more at annamarris.co.uk