Anna Reid is a writer, a curator and a historian of art. Her research readdresses representations of the landscape in its British histories, with a focus on contexts of new geological and physiological knowledge. Her doctoral research titled The Nest of Wild Stones: A Geological Way of Seeing in the British Landscape, reread the work of Paul Nash in the context of vital geophysical discoveries of the interwar period and as a resource for artists and writers working in the contemporary context of unfolding ecological knowledge. This work is published with The Dark Mountain Project; Visual Culture in Britain, British Art Studies and presented as part of the major conference and publication The Landscape Now.
From 2019-21 Anna worked as Head of Research and as Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, where, for example, and in the context of the global pandemic, she devised the international conference British Art and Natural Forces. Her work is shaped by her collaboration and curatorial work with contemporary artists such as Lucy Skaer, Elizabeth Price, Hetain Patel and Mathieu Abonnenc, including as Director and Curator at the art organization, Pavilion from 2006-16. Anna gained her PhD with the support of the AHRC Centre for doctoral research at Northumbria University. She holds an MA from Goldsmiths College, an MA from The Courtauld Institute and she gained her BA History of Art at the University of Cambridge. Her current research is investigating representations of the garden, in the context of the modernist landscape, attending to unseen processes of coloniality and physiology.
By this contributor:
“Colonizers’ Medicines,” published April 20, 2022
“The portrayal of the Native American medicine man or Shaman,” published June 8, 2022
“Documentations of medicinal plants in the eighteenth-century Caribbean,” published July 11, 2022
