Hi, I’m Anna, I’m a multi-disciplinary creative practitioner connecting people and ideas.
My work explores art and science and I’m interested in big questions, small sparks and the potential energy of the unknown.
I hope to shift power by enabling collective curiosity and imagination.
I create for and with audiences and future participants, testing things out together.
More info below….
why ‘imaginary astronaut’?
because I work with liberating imagination and my practice orbits different disciplines….and because I always wanted to be an astronaut….
Currently I’m part of a funded Stewarding Group supporting a community of practice across the UK to explore Transformational Governance, with a Power Shift learning cohort.
As I develop my individual creative practice and navigate a chronic health condition, I am working on a poetry pamphlet, which was shortlisted for the Disabled Poets Prize 2024. I am also collaborating with artists Raquel Meseguer Zafe and Jamie McCarthy on a performance project exploring time and chronic illness.
Previously, I was Creative Director of We the Curious, where I led the transformation of a science centre to open up science as part of culture, building an open city lab, an art-science gallery and a major permanent exhibition co-designed to explore questions contributed by the people of Bristol.
I started out with degrees in Physics and Science Communication, and via a few years performing sketch comedy, I spent a decade working in TV as a script editor, voice director and BAFTA nominated children’s animation writer. I produced the BBC Proms, live global cinema broadcasts from the Royal Opera House and the first series of BBC Young Dancer.
I’ve lectured on antimatter as the UK Particle Physics Outreach Officer, delivered a TEDx talk on curiosity and produced live data-taking experiment events as Director of Impossible Projects for a pioneering public neuroscience laboratory. I also spent a maternity cover year helping to shepherd a new vision for the History of Science Museum, Oxford, as their co-Head of Public Engagement and Programmes.
I am Chair of Unlimited - an organisation commissioning extraordinary work by disabled artists until the rest of the sector do. I was also Chair for the board of MAYK, and a founding trustee of Paraorchestra.
