Australian Artist Anna Glynn


contemporary multimedia artist

Finalist Ravenswood Australian Womens Art Prize © Anna Glynn

Acquired:
2023 Art Gallery of Ballarat
2023 Halloran Trust Collection
2021 Australian Parliament House Art Collection
2021 National Museum of Australia

Finalist
2024 Alice Prize - National Contemporary Art Award
2024 Blacktown City Art Prize
2023 Bermingham National Watercolour Prize
2023 Gosford Art Prize
2023 Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize
2023 Omnia Art Prize
2023 Lethbridge Landscape Prize
2022 Heysen Prize for Landscape
2022 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing

2023 International Women's Day Arts Award
2023 Artist in Residence, Arctic Circle, Finland
2018 Selected for Biennale Of Australian Art
2018-2021 Promiscuous Provenance Awarded Australian Government Grant for national tour

Anna Glynn ‘Lost Species - A Folly' moving image still © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

‘Lost Species - A Folly'
moving image still

© Anna Glynn 2022 www.annaglynn.com

Anna Glynn Finalist 2021 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

‘Native Dog Swallows Julia Johnstone’
Finalist Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing

© Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

Anna Glynn Finalist 2020 Elaine Bermingham National Watercolour Prize in Landscape Painting © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

‘Flintoff Swallows von Guerard’
2023 Acquired Art Gallery of Ballarat
2020 Finalist Bermingham National Watercolour Prize

© Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

Anna Glynn Finalist 2020 Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize Lismore Regional Gallery © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

'Superimposition, Colonial Selfie, I’m Extant, They’re Extinct' (detail)
Finalist Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize

© Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

2020 Finalist Fisher’s Ghost Art Award FGAA Campbelltown Arts Centre © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

‘Stubbs Dingo Swallows Ponies’
Finalist Fisher’s Ghost Art Award - FGAA

© Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

detail from Eurotipodes Anna Glynn Promiscuous Provenance national touring exhibition Visions of Australia © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

'Promiscuous Provenance'
Touring Exhibition 2018 - 2021


Australian Government's Visions of Australia program awards $75,502, towards the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery national tour of my Promiscuous Provenance solo exhibition, taking the work to a regional and national audience showing in galleries across QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC and SA.

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Artist Anna Glynn 2020 Finalist Basil Sellers Art Prize © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

'Extinction Game - Eastern Hare Wallaby'
Finalist Basil Sellers Art Prize

© Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

Anna Glynn Finalist 2020 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

'Extinction Game' (detail)
Finalist Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing

© Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

019 'Marooned' International Exhibition - MONA, Museum of New Art, Estonia artist Anna Glynn © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

2019 Exhibition
MONA
Museum of New Art, Estonia



‘Marooned’- a series of compelling intimate thematic installations at MONA.

'Swan Saga, photomontage/wallpaper acquired by the Museum of New Art - MONA, Estonia. First Australian artist in their collection.

View excerpt 'Marooned' moving image video artwork

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international interdisciplinary collaboration SITKA-USA and ARNA-Sweden artist Anna Glynn and biologist Peter Dalmazzo Art, Ecology & Science Project © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

Artist in Residence 2018 - 2019
Art, Ecology & Science, Sweden, USA & Australia

An international interdisciplinary collaboration between SITKA-USA and ARNA-Sweden where Australian artist Anna Glynn and biologist Peter Dalmazzo through the Art, Ecology & Science Project found ways to connect a vision for a new UNESCO biosphere in Sweden.

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"…a nuanced layering of kaleidoscopic densities. Translucent films of light are overlayed each carrying different information...realising the depth of biologic relationships..." Frank Boyden 2019

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Acquired Kedumba Drawing Award © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

2015 Kedumba Drawing Award

'Awaiting Discovery' by Anna Glynn acquired by the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings

The drawing references the work of the early European artists who visited Australia and plays with the notion of ‘discovery’.

“The Kedumba Collection has become the most representative collection of drawings of this period in this country.”
John Olsen AO OBE

Orange Regional Gallery
12 September to 15 November 2015

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Current Projects

Select Exhibitions

Alice Prize National Contemporary Art Award
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs
22 March to 12 May 2024

LINKED Mixed Exhibition
Frances Keevil | STUDIO W
20 Feb – 3 March 2024⁠

Blacktown City Art Prize
Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
16 January - 5 April 2024⁠

Bermingham National Watercolour Prize
Queensland College of Art (QCA) Brisbane
29th November 2023 – 11th January 2024⁠

Speaking Water Exhibition Tour
YAM, Yarrila Arts Museum
16 September – 1 October, 2023

'Artists in Volatile Landscapes'
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
24 June - 17 September 2023

International artist in residence SITKA, USA & ARNA Sweden Australian artist Anna Glynn & biologist Peter Dalmazzo © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

Art & Science Collaborations

Artist Anna Glynn & Scientist Peter Dalmazzo journey around the globe exploring nature.

2023 Artist & Scientist in Residence
Arctic Circle, Finland

Groundtruthing AIR
Orana Arts and CORRIDOR project Australia
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Art, Ecology & Science, Sweden, USA & Australia. SITKA-USA and ARNA-Sweden
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Art of Threatened Species
Mt Kaputar Snail and Slug Threatened Ecological Community

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Dry Tortugas Islands, USA
30 days 'off grid' on a tiny island!
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'love kindness walk humbly' moving image artwork by Australian artist Anna Glynn © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

Moving Image / Video Art

My moving image works are shown internationally, have been finalist in prestigious awards and are in major collections, including the Australian Parliament House Art Collection and the National Museum Australia.

‘…love kindness…walk humbly…’ - visceral response to catastrophic Black Summer bushfires

‘Above and Below' – a poetic fantasia

‘Marooned’transient, delicate and fragile

'Grass Mountain' - nuanced layering of kaleidoscopic densities

'Svampar' - verdant autumnal landscape

'Flourish Metamorphosis' - a submerged micro world


Promiscuous Provenance Anna Glynn exhibition touring 2018 – 2021 Visions of Australia © Anna Glynn 2021 www.annaglynn.com

‘Promiscuous Provenance’

Assisted by a major grant from the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program the Shoalhaven Regional Gallery tour of my Promiscuous Provenance solo exhibition, took the work to a national audience 2018 to 2021. Ten galleries across QLD, NSW, ACT, SA and Vic.

"...Her sometimes surprising and disorienting combinations of historical and contemporary subjects insert history into the present. And the present into history. They remind us of just how wondrous and alienating the Australian landscape was, so puzzling and new it seemed almost the stuff of fairy tales..."
Louise Anemaat, State Library NSW


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Promiscuous Provenance catalogue
View Promiscuous Provenance documentary