Melbourne-based Anna Finlayson is best known for her spatially engaged installations and floor-based sculptural assemblages, often using everyday objects—plastic balls, electrical cables, pre-fabricated matter—transformed through obsessive order and visual logic.

Beneath this materiality lies a decades-long investigation into the grid as both visual system and site of subjectivity. Her ongoing spectrum drawings—painstakingly constructed grids of gouache daubs—double as data sets and diaristic meditations. Time, gesture, colour and numerical calculation converge into a singular process that is equal parts ritual, record, and visual rhythm.

Anna’s work has been exhibited widely, with solo shows at The Substation, Sarah Scout Presents, and Linden New Art, and group shows at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Conical, and Block Projects. She holds a PhD in Fine Art and her works are held in major collections including Artbank and the NGV.

“Finlayson's colour choices and gestures may be pretty and palatable, but the sustained rigour of her process and logic puts these works in another realm entirely.”
— Dan Rule, The Age

Book Anna Finlayson for:

• Mentorships, talks, or workshops on systems-based artmaking, visual logic, and process-driven practice

• Insightful discussions on how structure and subjectivity co-exist in contemporary art

• Explorations of material thinking, repetition, and the grid as a site of personal and visual inquiry

• Support for artists and institutions seeking depth in method, process, and practice-led research

Perfect for:
– Visual Art Departments
– Exhibition Development Units
– Artists investigating method and process