Anna Madeleine Raupach / by Kirrily Jordan

Anna Madeleine Raupach, Slow Violence (Gospers Mountain) 2020, embroidery thread on emergency blanket, 200 × 127 cm. Installation view: Ramsay Art Prize 2021, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Image courtesy of Saul Steed, AGSA.

Anna Madeleine Raupach is a multidisciplinary artist based on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land, and a Lecturer at the ANU School of Art & Design. Through multimedia installations, AR and VR experiences, and mixed media artworks, her practice engages with science and technology to critically address socio-political issues enmeshed with climate change.

Anna has a PhD in Media Arts from UNSW Art & Design (2014), and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from ANU School of Art & Design (2007). Recent projects include an Australian Network for Art and Technology Synapse Residency, a Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Research Fellowship, and commissioned artworks for the Tellus Project led by UNSW Art & Design and the National Herbarium; and Solar Protocol Network. In 2024 she will be a 2024 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. 

Anna has been awarded international residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, through the Art Gallery of NSW (2018); and Common Room Network Foundation, Indonesia, with Asialink Arts (2017). She has had solo exhibitions in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, and Bandung, and across Australia she has participated in group exhibitions at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre; Verge Gallery; Bundanon Trust; Watch This Space, Alice Springs; Flinders Lane Gallery; and Art+Climate=Change, Melbourne. Her work has been selected for prizes including the Mandy Martin Art and Environment Award, 2022; the Ramsay Art Prize, 2021; Blake Prize, 2020; Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, 2020; and the Churchie Emerging Arts Prize, 2016.

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