Anna Frijstein (1991) is a Dutch-born, UK based artist where she completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in London.

Frijstein works across performance, painting, drawing, video, and sculpture, where emotions and language lead the way. Discarded cardboard, found textiles, her own preloved clothes, and other collected bits and bobs are (re)used as surfaces to paint and write on. She often imagines and embodies animals, plants, planets, fruits, and other beings, who playfully scrutinise human behaviour, resulting in absurdist artworks. Beneath the playfulness lies an unsettling layer of bittersweet humour, full of dark, melancholic, raging, and maternal feelings around socio-psychological and ecological issues.

Recurring themes throughout her work include: Female Rage; Performance & Play Against Patriarchy; Flooded Feelings; Exorcism* & Motherhood; Twisted Pedagogies**; Emotional (Un)Learning; and Ecologies4All.

In early 2024 she received funding from the Arts Council England for research and new work development exploring motherhood and mental-health.

*From Louise Bourgeois

**From Mike Kelley