Bio
Anna Holm is a Scottish painter based in Devon UK. Her background as a care experienced person raised on a working class council scheme in a rundown seaside town on the west coast of Scotland is embeded in her work. She works from a tiny garden shed studio over looking the garden she has created as a place of sanctuary and which also inspires her work.
She graduated with an MA in fine art from Central St Martins after completing BA Fine art at Bristol UWE gaining a 1st Class Hons.
Her most recent Exhibitions include Canal Boat Contemporary 2025 and ‘Crowd Scene’ at Finch London.
Anna Holm’s paintings explore various personal narritives established from a complex experience of othering and isolation, that stem from an abscence of roots, kin and heritage. She aims to reframe this profound and ongoing othering into something beautiful.
Running throughout her work are references to the Ghost Kingdom and the Ghost Self - well documented internal realities often created by adopted and other care experienced persons to cope with indescribable loss.
Botanical forms are representational of family structures (or lack of) and combine with other organic elements to take on their own anthropomorphic characteristics.
These dreamlike garden scenarios suggest a space of security where the ghost self can thrive and be loved.
