Annatomix is a self-trained, self-employed artist and single parent to one son, residing in Halesowen, near Birmigham, UK. Born in 1984, she has lived in the Midlands for most of her life, but has travelled extensively since her teens.
Previously a sound engineer, she made the change to Visual Art as a career in 2011, following a facination with street art and graffiti, grown from years of exploring abandoned industrial spaces. She has built her business predominantly around street art and muralism, while also producing over 650 studio artworks which sell online and occasionally, through galleries.
The themes in Anna's work revolve heavily around wildlife – particularly endangered or threatened species and those that have significance to local environments and their communities. Her style has developed from a lifelong interest in technical drawing, geometry, brutalism and industrial architecture.
Over the past 15 years, she has built a strong record of large scale public art practise, working with councils, colleges and universities, community groups and festivals, museums and a range of other clients across the UK - and as far away as Mexico and India - to create vibrant public artworks. Her success lies in her dedication and ability to create site specific murals that work well with their environment and hold universal appeal.
Her fine art and prints are collected worldwide and she has work in the permenant collection of The Fan Museum in Greenwich, London.
Annatomix has been featured in many online articles, magazines and books, including “Paper Crafts” – Thames & Hudson/ V&A 2018, and more recently, “Street Art is Female” by Alessandra Mattanza and MUCA Munich – Prestel 2022.
Previous mural clients include Transport for London, National Rail, Canal & River Trust, National Trust, Arts Council England, Coventry University, IIT Bombay, Belfast Zoo, The Herbert Museum, Hammerson PLC, Balfour Beatty Vinci, St Modwen Homes and The Gadget Show, among many more.
Annatomix has Public Liability Insurance, she is trained to work at height, has completed works upto 300 sqm in size, and holds a valid IPAF licence.
Recent experience
- Mural commission for Saint Pauls Market, Birmingham, April 2026.
- Mural Commission for Central BID, Birmingham, March 2026.
- Mural commission for The Waterways student accomadation building, Nottingham, September 2025.
- Second Mural commission for New Urban Era Bus Stop Arts Trail, Tamworth, August 2025.
- Mural commission for Yardley Wood Community Primary School, Birmingham, July 2025.
- Mural commission for Canal & River Trust on the Digbeth Branch Canal, Birmingham, June 2025.
- Mural commission for New Urban Era Bus Stop Arts Trail. Tamworth, September 2024.
- Mural commission for Moseley Hive at Moseley Park. Birmingham, March 2024.
- Mural commission for Hope International Church. Belfast, February 2024.
- Mural commission for Worcester Paint Festival. Worcester, September 2023.
- Work on Walls installation with The Herbert Museum and Art Gallery. Coventry, Summer 2023.
- Mural commission for Balfour Beatty. Birmingham, Summer 2023.
- Multi mural commission for St. Modwen developers. Longbridge, Spring 2023.
- Mural commission for Hit The North festival. Belfast, May 2023.
- Mural commission for Belfast Zoo. Belfast, March 2023.
- Mural commission for Arts in The Yards, supported by the Commonwealth Games. Acocks Green, November 2022.
- Mural commission for New Urban Era Cycle Arts Trail, supported by Art Council England. Tamworth, September 2022.
- Mural commission for Friends of Shenstone Station, supported by Network Rail. Shenstone, April 2022.
- Mural commission for Seedhead Arts and Newtown Ards council. Newtown Ards, Northern Ireland, October 2021.
- Poster design for The Creative City exhibition – part of Birmingham Design Festival 2021
- Mural commission for Jewellery Quarter BID, inside Jewellery Quarter car park. Birmingham, August 2021
- Mural commission for Roundhouse Birmingham. An industrial placement project with Canal & River Trust, National Trust and Sutton College. Birmingham, June 2021
- Mural commission for Friends of Wylde Green Station, supported by Network Rail. Wylde Green, June 2021
- Mural commission for CourtX tennis complex. Southsea, May 2021
- Multi mural commission for Belfast Council’s “Entries Project”. Belfast, August 2020
Anna is often contacted by inquisitive students who have asked many questions over the years, which she welcomes. Some of those questions and her response are below -
Do you consider your job hard?
It's not the hardest job in the world, but it's certainly not easy. I am self employed which means I have to manage every aspect of the business myself - taxes, contracts and invoices, ordering supplies, paying bills, making reservations, meeting with clients, managing my 2 studios - as well as physically creating Art.
Making murals can be quite physically demanding too. There are long hours involved, sometimes working well over a week without a day off. There is usually a lot of travelling, walking, climbing and lifting involved and the act of painting a giant mural is exhausting by itself. Especially when you work alone.
I am a mother, too - I have a 15 yr old son - so I always have a lot of work to do. But I enjoy it all and my job can be a lot of fun. I wouldn't want to be doing anything else.
Why did you change profession?
The financial recession in 2008 took a big toll on my job at the time. I was a sound engineer and the company I was working for was suffering, so I left that year to look for work elsewhere. In 2010, I became a mother and I knew that my old job wasn't going to work for me anymore - too many long hours and late nights away from home. I needed to find something else and I was determined to do something that I cared about as much as music.
I've enjoyed art and being creative since I was very young, and I had always sketched over the years, but I only studied Art in school and I didn't go to college or university for it - my studies were all in Music. Still, I had taken up sketching again after my son was born, and started to develop an interest in social media. I already had a keen interest in graffiti and street art, and because I couldn't go out much at the time, I pursued this via Facebook and Instagram.
Along the way I made a lot of friends from all over the world, most of them artists themselves. I started trading art with them - mainly handmade stickers and posters - and we would put each other's work up in our own cities, take photos and share them online. It all grew from there.
I first started spray painting in 2012. By 2014, I was self employed.
What are your inspirations or what inspires you?
I get inspiration for my work from a huge variety of places - art, music, architecture, history, science and science fiction - but my main focus currently is around the relationship between humanity and the natural world - such as how humanity tries to force nature to do what it wants, and how futile that is.
I read a lot and I particularly enjoy philosophy, theology and mythology - the more ancient, the better - and this also has a big influence on what I create.
Why are you so interested in origami animals? Or when did you first start doing origami animals?
My interest in origami is minimal and has no influence on my work - even though my animals are regularly described in this way by others. Of course I can understand why people may see a relation to origami in my work, but my influence actually comes from geometry, low poly modelling, crystalline structures and architecture. My earliest creatures were made up of 3D geometric shapes like cubes, and they have evolved from there. To me, my animals represent our future with nature - unnatural, low-poly and robotic, designed to suit our desires and look aesthetically pleasing.