Anna Jane Houghton
b.1995, Chester, England
Lives and works in Liverpool
is an artist, researcher and musician working with sound, film, performance and print media, investigating prepared listening spheres in the context of the poetics of materials, the fabric of memory and the sensitivity of space. Her work centres around hyper-memory-installation in an exploration of the psychological and sculptural dimensions of sound, in response to the architecture and history of the spaces in which they are installed; bringing to our attention the auditory presence of place to evoke collective memory and a plural sense of being.
Selected Solo andDuo Exhibitionsand Performance
2024 Albertine, Biennale Fellowship, Via Garibaldi, Venice
2023 Y BALA 2.0, FACT, Liverpool
2023 Y BALA, Independents Biennial, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2022 LIDO, CBS Gallery, Liverpool
2017 Tremolo, CLAMOUR, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2016 Secrets in the Open Sea, An Imagined Museum, TATE Liverpool
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performance
2024 Into the Wyld, Williamson Gallery, Birkenhead
2023 Audiograft, w/ Rita Evans, Sharon Phelan, Beth Shearsby,
Catherine Ross, OVADA, Oxford
2022 Audiograft, w/ Tim Parkinson and Ryoko Akama, MOA, Modern Art Oxford
2022 Continuum: The Possibilities of Time, Plas Bodfa, Angelsey, Wales
2018 A Liverpool Bestiary, Atiner ISBN, Conference, Texas, USA
2017 Residue, WE THE NORTH, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2017 Triptych, Cain’s Brewery, Liverpool
2016 Tunnel Vision, Williamson Tunnels, Liverpool
2016 Simultaneous Contrasts, Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool
2014 The Luxury of Dirt, Fattoria Castiglionghio, Florence, Italy
Curation
2024 INTO THE LIGHT: A Jamie Reid Memorial Exhibition, Curatorial Assistant to Curator Prof. Colin Fallows, Exhibition Research Lab, LJMU
2023 The Case for Forcing, Luke George, Independents Biennial, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2023 Y BALA 2.0, FACT, Liverpool
2023 Y BALA, Independents Biennial, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2022 Adornments of Fancy, Luke George, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2022 LIDO, CBS Gallery, Liverpool
2018 Ode To Burroughs, CLAMOUR, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
2017 Tremolo, CLAMOUR, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
Selected Published/Public Outputs
2024 La Durée, Film and Paper, A Row of Trees Journal, SARU, Sonic Arts Research Unit, Oxford Brookes University
2023 Post-Syncing / Post-Sinking, HOAX Magazine, London
2023 Environment/ Photography / Sound, Symposium, TATE Liverpool
2022 Ascending Rooms: 23 Notes on Vibration of the Lived Environment and the Question of Immortality, A Row of Trees Journal, SARU
2023 The Thoughtful Listener, Permanently Installed Soundscape, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
2019 The Sound of Space / The Space of Sound, Inside Out Symposium, TATE Liverpool
2016 In Conversation with Viv Albertine, Delegate Conference, Focus Wales,Wrexham
Qualifications
Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University
2021-2025 PhD Art and Design
The Sound of Space / The Space of Sound : Situating Sonic Art Practices through the Spatial, the Somatic and the Object
2018-2019 MRes, Master of Research (Distinction), Art and Design
2014-2017 BA (Hons) 1st Class, Fine Art
Awards
2024 British Council 60th Venice Biennale Fellowship in support of Sir John Akomfrah
2021-2024 Vice Chancellor’s PhD Excellence Scholarship, LJMU
2014-2017 Academic Excellence Scholarship, LJMU
2012 Young Artist of the Year, Chester University
Residencies
2024 British Council 60th Venice Biennale Research Residency
2023 Audiograft Residency, SARU, OVADA Oxford
2022 Audiograft Residency, Modern Art Oxford, MAO
2022 7th International Arts Symposium, Struga, North Macedonia
2020-2021 CreArt Air LAVA, Valladolid, Spain
2019 LJMU Postgraduate Research Residency, San Francisco, California
2017 The Royal Standard Graduate Residency, Liverpool
2017 CBS Gallery Graduate Residency, Liverpool
Teaching and Workshops
2022-2023 Sessional Lecturer, History of Art and Museum Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
2021 Sessional Lecturer, Fashion Communication, Liverpool John Moores University
2021 Print Making and Drawing Patient Workshops, Best for You Centre, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
2021 Mauvais Alphabet Family Workshops, The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Biennial
2020 Pictures of the Gone World Print Making for DAYE
