Anna Taylor


Anna Taylor is a process-led interdisciplinary artist working mainly through writing and performance. Interactions with objects, household materials, images and violin are a method of embodied research. Anna’s work is concerned with the in-between; feeling into the limits of language, categorisation and defined experience. She regularly works with linguistic or physical binaries and instructional text, opening up a contemplative space for not knowing and possibility.

Her practice is self-taught and initially developed out of motherhood as a creative context. Intuitively positioning her work to the side of, or outside of dominant structures, it is usually shared in a hyperlocal or intimate setting.

Anna is also a co-director at In-Situ where she works on Critical Engagement. Here, her interests extend into alternative organising structures, creating space for collective thinking and approaching art as a way of being. 


Email annaceritaylor@gmail.com
Instagram @backburner_journal
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Born 1980, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Lives and works in Todmorden, Yorkshire and East Lancashire

Ongoing
Artist - Writer
Co-Director and Critical Engagement at In-Situ

Awards
Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice grant, 2023-24

Talks and Events 
Artist talk Making in the in-Between for Art of Small Talk, In Translation programme, funded by British Council (Pakistan)

Residencies and Commissions
2023 Writing Residency with Rachel Newsome and Kelly Loughlin, hosted by Kerry Morrison and Helmut Lemke, Dumfries
2023 Collaborative Performance Residency with Lisa Risbec, Imaginary Wines, Todmorden
2019 The Valley, commissioned by Calderdale Womens Sound Network and funded by Arts Council England through Yorkshire Womens Sound Network
2018 TRACE Residency and exhibition, hosted by Sian Bonnell

Selected Exhibitions
(* indicates performance)
2023*The Method, performed reading with violin at Imaginary Wines, Todmorden
2022 *A Performative Talk, Imaginary Wines, Todmorden
2022 Mound / Un-Mound, Imaginary Wines, Todmorden (Solo Exhibition)
2020 Postcards from the Futuro, Todmorden Information Centre (Group Exhibition)
2019*Listen in Two: a performance on two violins at The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
2019 Christmas Contemporary, 9A Projects, Todmorden (Group Exhibition)
2018 A Line Against Firs, TRACE project space, Todmorden (Solo Exhibition)
2019 Listen in Two, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2018 Mound/Un-Mound, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2017 Fluid Forms, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2017 Movement and Suspension, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2017The Icicle, Pushing up Daisies Festival of Death and Dying, Todmorden
2016 Paper Landscapes, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2015 The Fielden Project, Todmorden Unitarian Church (Group Exhibition)

Publications
2016-19 Backburner Journal (online), self-published
2017 Fluid Forms, Backburner Journal, self-published
2017 Movement and Suspension, Backburner Journal, self-published
2016 And Other Night Singers, self-published (group project)
2015The Fielden Project, self-published (group project)






Anna Taylor is a process-led interdisciplinary artist working mainly through writing and performance. Interactions with objects, household materials, images and violin are a method of embodied research. Anna’s work is concerned with the in-between; feeling into the limits of language, categorisation and defined experience. She regularly works with linguistic or physical binaries and instructional text, opening up a contemplative space for not knowing and possibility.

Her practice is self-taught and initially developed out of motherhood as a creative context. Intuitively positioning her work to the side of, or outside of dominant structures, it is usually shared in a hyperlocal or intimate setting.

Anna is also a co-director at In-Situ where she works on Critical Engagement. Here, her interests extend into alternative organising structures, creating space for collective thinking and approaching art as a way of being. 


Email annaceritaylor@gmail.com
Instagram @backburner_journal
Sign up to my mailing list here

Born 1980, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Lives and works in Todmorden, Yorkshire and East Lancashire

Ongoing
Artist - Writer
Co-Director and Critical Engagement at In-Situ

Awards
Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice grant, 2023-24

Talks and Events 
Artist talk Making in the in-Between for Art of Small Talk, In Translation programme, funded by British Council (Pakistan)

Residencies and Commissions
2023 Writing Residency with Rachel Newsome and Kelly Loughlin, hosted by Kerry Morrison and Helmut Lemke, Dumfries
2023 Collaborative Performance Residency with Lisa Risbec, Imaginary Wines, Todmorden
2019 The Valley, commissioned by Calderdale Womens Sound Network and funded by Arts Council England through Yorkshire Womens Sound Network
2018 TRACE Residency and exhibition, hosted by Sian Bonnell

Selected Exhibitions
(* indicates performance)
2023*The Method, performed reading with violin at Imaginary Wines, Todmorden
2022 *A Performative Talk, Imaginary Wines, Todmorden
2022 Mound / Un-Mound, Imaginary Wines, Todmorden (Solo Exhibition)
2020 Postcards from the Futuro, Todmorden Information Centre (Group Exhibition)
2019*Listen in Two: a performance on two violins at The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
2019 Christmas Contemporary, 9A Projects, Todmorden (Group Exhibition)
2018 A Line Against Firs, TRACE project space, Todmorden (Solo Exhibition)
2019 Listen in Two, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2018 Mound/Un-Mound, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2017 Fluid Forms, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2017 Movement and Suspension, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2017The Icicle, Pushing up Daisies Festival of Death and Dying, Todmorden
2016 Paper Landscapes, Backburner, Back Byrom St, Todmorden
2015 The Fielden Project, Todmorden Unitarian Church (Group Exhibition)

Publications
2016-19 Backburner Journal (online), self-published
2017 Fluid Forms, Backburner Journal, self-published
2017 Movement and Suspension, Backburner Journal, self-published
2016 And Other Night Singers, self-published (group project)
2015The Fielden Project, self-published (group project)