Annie Woodford is a multi disciplinary artist who seeks to transform materials into something unexpected, mysterious and ambiguous.

‘My work investigates the nature of invisible worlds, that exist beyond and between the surface of things and the continuous intertwining of the past with the future, the real with the imagined.’

Annie Woodford’s making is always preceded by a period of research, often involving a detailed examination of elements from the natural world. Sometimes she begins with time spent immersed within a landscape, space or place. Material investigations – executed both intuitively and analytically – occur concurrently with these periods of research, leading to new ways of thinking and making.

Travel and research

Woodford studied at the Royal College of Art, receiving a travel scholarship and graduating with an MA in Ceramics and Glass. Since then she has exhibited nationally and internationally, often with an emphasis on installations and site-specific works and her work is included in public and private collections worldwide. Extensively travelled, she has carried out major research projects in Iceland, the Arctic and New Zealand, facilitated by both public and private bursaries.

Currently, she is working on two research projects; The Language of Lichen and The Secret world of Fungi.

During 2022, Annie’s work was exhibited with GroundWork Gallery as part of the exhibition Fieldwork with Haptic/tacit. She found the ethos and aims of the gallery, led by and informed by Veronica Sekules, to be both forward thinking and sympathetic to her own way of considering the natural world. The new initiative, GroundWork NetWork seems an excellent way to collaborate with like minded people, from many different disciplines, who are concerned about the future of our natural world.