About Anna

2017 Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture, First Class Honours) Sydney University
1998 Bachelor of Design (Graphics/Media) University of NSW

Education 

Artist Bio 

Anna in her studio

Anna Battersby is a ceramic artist based in Melbourne, Australia.

She creates both porcelain and stoneware slip-based works through spontaneous gesture and action that seek resonance with the natural world around us, and explore the relationships between material and process, inviting the viewer to contemplate the material, the poetic, and the imaginative.

Anna holds a Bachelor of Design and had a long career in graphic design and digital media before shifting focus to her art. In 2017, she received an honours scholarship and completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Sculpture) with First Class Honours at the University of Sydney. 

She exhibits regularly throughout Australia and has been a finalist in numerous award shows, including the Clunes Ceramic Award (2022), the Klytie Pate Ceramic Award (2023) and the Siliceous Award for Ceramic Excellence (2021, 2025).

Anna has recently undertaken on a new body of gestural stoneware work for group exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney in 2025.

Porcelain work in progress
Anna assembling her tile work