Anna Hannola

Anna is a Finnish artist who has a long-held interest in the human relationship with nature. Her Graduate Show project operates at the intersection of anatomy and botany, examining the mutability, precarity, and interconnectedness of life that exists beyond the human-nature divide. In a conversation between the pathological collection of Edinburgh's Surgeons' Hall museums and the Royal Botanical Gardens, her observational drawings and photography form a basis for her works which combine the external forms of flora with the visceral forms of the human body. Bridging together the anatomical and the botanical, her playfully uncanny compositions invite close and slow looking, nurturing a sense of discovery, curiosity, and empathy towards all living beings.