Anna J Brodie graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, in 2023 and is an award winning artist. She now lives and works between Edinburgh and London, running the collective Awright Projects, teaching and maintaining her practice.
Brodie’s sculptures unfold through resisting organisation. She attempts to work against binaries, reimagining ways of knowing. Taking root in an interest with the body, where what is considered a body is held open - she works with both subject and object in mind to build figures of familiar and unfamiliar kinds. Brodie creates monstrous works - symbolic expressions of contemporary unease - by redefining boundaries between ourselves and our environment. She attempts to look beyond the facade of the individual, ordered and known world. Instead, fostering attention and care for the communal, disordered, unknown, and ambiguous world which makes room for further understanding of contemporary life.
This work is part tree and part imagined creature of human and animalistic qualities. The creature is suspended in a wooden structure, built to the standardised measurements of modern UK housing. It appears to both move freely and be moved by the mechanisms that control it.
