Annie Crabtree

Annie Crabtree is an artist working with the moving image to explore subjectivity as a vessel for challenging dominant societal norms. Informed by autotheory/fiction, feminist geopolitics, emotional geography, and crip theory, their work centres nuance, contradiction and emotion, rhythmically triangulating image, sound, and voice to evoke the repetitive reverb of traumatised memory. Annie’s work has been exhibited with Edinburgh Art Festival, Glasgow International, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, and London Short Film Festival, amongst others, and has been supported by the Hope Scott Trust and Creative Scotland.

At Rupert, Annie will focus on playful experimentation and reflective research with a view towards developing a new body of work that centres on the idea that memory is an image on repeat. They will examine how digitally manipulating analogue materials can be further utilised to expand upon recurrent themes within their practice – untangling, depicting, and evoking the cyclical nature of traumatised memory and the potential of repetition as a cathartic rehearsal for manifesting new equilibriums.