Anney White

Anney is an Edinburgh-born multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Perth and Kinross. She explores the fluidity of existence through abstract expressionist painting, drawing, analogue photography, chemigrams, darkroom techniques, and short films. Each mark and brushstroke made on a canvas or photographic print represents a personal journey, meandering across surfaces and pausing in moments of reflection. Her process reaches beyond conventional narratives, prioritising the nonverbal expression of diverse experiences and emotions.

She embraces uncertainty and surrenders to the creative process, retaining her prerogative to alter her course and staying unrestricted by predetermined expectations. Her artistic journey examines life's intricate landscape of highs and lows. It is a rhythmic interplay of movement and reaction, a choreography of investigation in which each mark carries significance.

Her paintings are reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionist movement in New York during the 1940s and 1950s, in which artists worked and lived together, often in poverty and without the recognition of the established art world, producing expressive gestural work originating in the psyche and in response to government-imposed limitations to freedoms as well as global events such as war and mass destruction, casting doubts on the future of the world; not unlike the current times.