Anna Souter

London

Freelance Writer at Freelance

writer//researcher//curator || art//plants//ecology || she//her

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Articles

Linder’s Monstrous Pop Cultural Assemblages

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Anna Souter

LONDON — For half a century, artist Linder has taken a scalpel to the pop culture images that define Euro-American culture. Working primarily with photomontage, her surgical dissections and monstrous re-assemblages offer insight into the insidious intersections of gender, desire, and commercialism at the heart of patriarchal capitalism’s imagery.
The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Anna Souter

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The Living Divinations of Ithell Colquhoun

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Anna Souter

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The Unlikely Muse of Soil

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Anna Souter

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Diedrick Brackens Unravels and Re-Weaves Histories

2 months ago | hyperallergic.com | Anna Souter

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A two-way healing

Feb 21, 2025 | resurgence.org | Anna Souter

There is something both familiar and unfamiliar about the temporary building erected within the exhibition Wild at Manchester Museum. It is a re-imagining of a mia-mia, a form of round hut used by some Indigenous Australian peoples, including Noongar people within what is now south-western Australia. The Noongar people build their mia-mia with vegetation from the bush, and the team at Manchester Museum have similarly used local plant-based materials, chosen in collaboration with Noongar partners.
Prem Sahib Captures the Unruly Aesthetics of Desire

Jan 30, 2025 | hyperallergic.com | Anna Souter

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A Guide to UK Art Spaces Outside London

Dec 12, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Anna Souter

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Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play

Nov 21, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Anna Souter

Support Hyperallergic’s independent arts journalism for as little as $8 per month. Become a Member HELSINKI — In Tove Jansson’s first Moomins novel, The Moomins and the Great Flood(1945), the titular characters travel through a frightening forest before a rainstorm causes an epic flood, covering the land in danger and darkness. When the waters begin to recede, the Moomins find they have been swept into a beautiful fertile valley. They decide to stay.
Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play

Nov 21, 2024 | flipboard.com | Anna Souter

Experienced psychologist says this overlooked trait is 'essential' when making small talkIt'll make people think you're captivating. Making small talk with someone you don’t know very well can cause a lot of anxiety. What if you get stuck …