Anna Charlotta Gardiner

Anna Charlotta Gardiner (b. 1983) is a Finnish-Scottish visual and performance artist. She has lived in Finland, Singapore, Australia, England and the USA, and has made Scotland her home.

Anna’s process of making art is ritual play, an improvised dance, and her materials are living beings and partners in this dance. She calls it applied animism. Interwoven with this – the warp to its weft – is her autistic self. A value- and logic-driven science-geek curiosity. Unmasking through mask-making. Making as stimming through sight and touch. Performance as stimming through movement and sensation.

This process births haunting spirits that live in the space between myth and science, between heritage and dreams, pulling together the threads of the human and more-than-human worlds.

Anna has a BA in anthropology, an MSc in skeletal anatomy, and a teaching qualification in secondary science. She recently graduated with a first-class BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the UHI Orkney. She won the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries award for her degree show, and the Outer Spaces Scotland Award for her installation at the Royal Scottish Academy. Her performance art is featured in the motion picture The Outrun.

Explore more of Anna’s work on her website, Instagram and Youtube.