Anna Walker, PhD, is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and storyteller. She explores the traces of trauma on both the body and the earth, investigating spaces of separation and connection across generations. In her practice, she examines how ancestral and intergenerational trauma moves through families and communities, and how we can create pathways for healing and reconnection. She has published over 30 essays and book chapters, edited over 5 books of artist's essays and research, and self-published many of her own works. Through text, photography, sound, and moving imagery, she examines resilience—how the body responds to overwhelming trauma and stress, and how it reorganises itself to navigate the complexities of such experiences across time and lineage.
Anna has an MA in Fine Art from Southampton University (1998), and a certificate in Psychotherapy from CBPC, Cambridge, (2010). Her work as a psychotherapist deepened her interest in the effects of trauma on the body, leading to a PhD in Arts and Media from Plymouth University (2017). Since then, she has been weaving photography, sound, and video with the spoken word, using storytelling and text as both research tool and holding space to examine memory, identity, and the possibility of reimagining our relationship to ancestral patterns. She has also been running workshops for over 15 years, with the last 5 years focused specifically on ancestral healing work. Her workshops combine somatic awareness, creative expression, and therapeutic inquiry to help participants explore their creativity, family histories and ancestral lineages.
Anna has an MA in Fine Art from Southampton University (1998), and a certificate in Psychotherapy from CBPC, Cambridge, (2010). Her work as a psychotherapist deepened her interest in the effects of trauma on the body, leading to a PhD in Arts and Media from Plymouth University (2017). Since then, she has been weaving photography, sound, and video with the spoken word, using storytelling and text as both research tool and holding space to examine memory, identity, and the possibility of reimagining our relationship to ancestral patterns. She has also been running workshops for over 15 years, with the last 5 years focused specifically on ancestral healing work. Her workshops combine somatic awareness, creative expression, and therapeutic inquiry to help participants explore their creativity, family histories and ancestral lineages.