Painter of emotions, feelings and experiences which are deployed on canvas to become a projection of his own experience. While his early work was expressed through organic informalism, he later abandoned the style to embark on a more figurative period. Today his artistic language is more based on expressionism. With underlying contrasts of raw and menacing rebelliousness, he rejects mimesis while still being a prisoner to his interior world.
Anna Irina Russell trained in Fine Arts at the Universitat de Barcelona, where she also gained a Master’s degree in Sound Art. She is an artist in residence at La Escocesa until 2027; having previously been resident at Hangar and at Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats. She was recently awarded the Miquel Casablancas Prize 2022 in the Work category. She has taken part in many artistic residences such as at Wysing Arts Centre (United Kingdom); Écart, in Canada, thanks to the Homesession grant; GYCF 2019 (Jeju, South Korea); Reitir (Iceland); and Sketch’m Up (Marseille, France).
In her artistic practice she makes use of sculptures and installations as a basis with communication channels, working with the manipulation of information. In recent years her works have focused on animal communication, and by using soft toys and inflatable membranes these artworks inflate or deflate to show danger or to communicate, as if it were breath.
Most recently she has taken part in several collective exhibitions such as: Birika bezain elastikoa at the Tabakalera centre in Donostia/San Sebastian in 2025; Un contagio at Bombon Projects in 2025; Sala d’espera at Fundació Joan Miró in 2024; Lorem Ipsum at MACBA in 2021; and Feminismes! at CCCB in 2019, in Barcelona. In 2026 she will exhibit at Museu Can Mario, Fundació Vila Casas.
Copyright: Eva Carasol.
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