Face Value (2026)
Photo, yarn & mirror
for the Feminine Urge Collective, Hull, UK.
Face Value is a personal and literal reflection of fragmented understanding, memories and emotions of daughter-hood.
“Cutting, weaving and making something from ‘bad’ art really soothes me. I find myself humming and stimming through the process, my brain gets to figure parts of itself out without me having to think. To me, all of these pieces and all the others similar where I paint, cut, stick, weave, scan feels like the physical embodiment of my neurodivergence. They are super tender with all of these hard edges, creating a home for the failed attempts.”
Burying My Brother (2025)
Experimental Video & Sound Making
Created during Rogue Residencies 2025
Not a Temple, A Trapped House (2026)
Acrylic painting on canvas board
The House of Smalls, Edinburgh
If my body is a temple it isn't one that I can worship. My 'femininity' shall be what kills me and I am trapped in the house, trapped in this house. It is this house that makes me sick.
Layered and carved acrylic on canvas board, made with frustration in bed. Sickness will always keep me in the house, on the waiting list, and I shall stretch my limbs until the windows break.
Piecing, Placing I (2025)
Weaved Painting
Art made through stimming.
Rent (2025)
Cyanotype
Medicine and aids used during an artist residency to physicalise the extra costs of a disabled person to join in physical spaces.
How They Move (2026)
GIF
Life drawings of a dancer, exploring how an able body moves.
Remembering (148) (2025)
Video Collage for National Grief Week.
What Have You Lost? (2025)
Authentic movement on video, sound recorded on site
Documenting the process of me spelling out my brothers name on the ground, exploring physical permanence with found objects whilst a cyanotype of his teddy processes.
The Receipt (2026)
GIF
Thermal printed photos from me revisiting the space where ‘What Have You Lost’ and ‘Burying My Brother’ was filmed. Playing with materialising and making a transaction out of life/death/dying.
What Remains (2025)
Digital Collage
Making connections between Human and Earth.
Weyward (2025)
Framed Installation
Tracing the movement of a hagstone, hung in front of gel plate prints of the ingredients used for spells of strength and courage.
Hung and installed in a frame as a homage to womanhood and witchcraft.
Owl of Athena (2026)
Acrylic & Gouache on canvas with pendulum
Painting made after research surrounding death and greif symbology. The owl of Athena is the traditional companion of the Greek goddess of wisdom, representing knowledge and erudition. Symbolising the ability to "see in the dark".
I asked a pendulum ‘Should I paint today'?’. When it swung yes, I painted. When it swung to no, I researched more.
Ghost Writer (2025)
Choreographer for music video
‘Working with Anna for the choreography was a delight.
The song is about writing and performing and what our relationship is with 'the stage' when we are on or off it, and when we are unable to fulfil our role as writers. This song was written after a lengthy period of writers block. I went to a Warren Ellis in conversation event and the way that he spoke about influence really opened my eyes to the endless chain of influence that exists before us.
I didn't tell Anna any of this, I just sent them the lyrics with the choruses highlighted, and in a totally magical way they completely understood. I learned that Anna referenced the choreography that got them into dancing, Anne De Keersmaker's dance, Rosas Danst Rosas.
I love all the gestures that they chose for this routine that just completely fit into how the song feels to sing.
For the second chorus we developed an algorithm using a dice to randomly select the order of the parts. We numbered each part and used the results to ascertain how the second time round would go.’
Tenderness as resistance
Anna Roberts-Finn (she/they) is a multidisciplinary, messy & metaphysical artist, based in the East Midlands, UK.
As a disabled, queer and neurodivergent artist, Roberts-Finn’s work is rooted in personal and communal lived experience of exploring grief, loss, neglect, ritual, and Sick ways of sensing and belonging in the world.
They approach art-making as playful, spiritual process.
Working with mark-making, weaving & sound, Roberts-Finn creates process-led work directed by the body & intuition.
annarobertsfinn@gmail.com
@annarobertsfinn