Annie Edwards’ essential area of focus is the human body. Her multidisciplinary practice distorts our familiar sense of reality by incorporating robotic, figurative sculptures with abstracted skeletal forms. Annie’s installation and performances aim to understand the body from biological, psychoanalytical and social perspectives. Her research choreographs the tension between body and machine, embedding visceral knowledge into mechanical gesture. Annie references wider systems of control present in domestic, medical and industrial environments, drawing on her personal experience of trauma, neurodiversity, atopic illness, and her background in farming.  

Annie’s practice interrogates the boundaries of skin—its texture, tone, and tension—both as a surface and a symbol. Skin becomes the barrier between what is hidden and exposed, a juxtaposing membrane of encasement and exposure. Through processes of building, dissembling, and rebuilding, Annie’s fragmented forms evoke the containment and expression of trauma within the body and brain. Drawing from abattoir architecture and her rural upbringing, she creates visceral metaphors of consumption, where bodies are reduced to objects within a system. Annie uses humor as both a disarming and subversive tool, addressing the parts of the body we are conditioned to shy away from. Her work embraces the grotesque and the abject as strategies to confront the beauty and discomfort of embodiment—using the language of the body to expose what is usually hidden, repressed, or deemed unacceptable. Annie’s work asks the viewer to reckon with their own embodiment, their own complicity, and their own capacity for tenderness.