Annie Faichney

Annie Faichney is a Scottish multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow. Film is her primary medium, unfolding through an expanded practice of painting, photography, writing, somatics and drawing. Her work is shaped by a deep curiosity in embodiment, sensory experience, organic matter, Scottish ecology and the ineffable qualities of being alive.

“My practice is guided by the body as a site of experience and by my relationship with my environment. I’m interested in depicting how close, attentive sensory awareness connects me with the earth, and how finding presence can make the boundary between myself and my surroundings porous. Through installation and video, I create conditions to ground and reconnect with the present moment, the earth and the self. I want folks to become fully conscious of the space they occupy – how they move through it, how their shadows interrupt the art, how their bodies interact with their surroundings. My work encourages an oscillation between a loss of self and a heightened awareness of it.

Working across film, sound, paint and writing, I often begin with recognisable forms such as bodies, water or flora. Each medium informs the next: when I paint I think about editing film, when I record sound I think about poetry. Layering, erosion, accumulation and excavation sit at the centre of my process. Forms move through softening, fragmenting and reforming, dissolving into fluid gestures or jagged distortions before clarity briefly surfaces again. My imagery sits between abstraction and definition, in an in-between place that feels fleeting or misremembered.”