Anna Lloyd-Parker is a sculptor based in Nipaluna Hobart, Tasmania. In her art practice, Anna explores the relationship between sensory-rich experiences in nature and the body through a female lens. She uses a traditional art form woven together with ancient motifs to reference past representations of the female body, but subverts their meaning by shifting the narrative away from the female body as a collection of parts to be viewed from the outside. Instead, she interrogates what the body can do and how it feels from the inside.

Anna’s artistic practice is deeply informed by her background as an Occupational Therapist. This experience has shaped her exploration of how our sensory systems and brains work together to create emotions and meaning. Her early studies in anatomy and physiology, combined with clinical experience observing movement and behaviour, sparked a fascination with the ways we embody our experiences. Our body movements, posture, expressions, and actions serve as a window into our memories, emotions, sense of identity, and the stories passed down through generations.

These themes are central to Anna’s sculptural work. She strives to distil her personal experience of a subject through hand-built figurative sculptures, using form, texture, and line to capture emotive gesture. Working with water-based clay on handmade wire armatures, Anna creates pieces from life models, photographic references, and memory. The lost wax method is then used to cast her sculptures in bronze. She chooses to work in bronze for its continuity with the past and its durability into the future.