Dr Anna Colin is an independent curator, educator, researcher and gardener. She is engaged with critical pedagogy, institutional time and habitability, social botany, and art and land-oriented education historically and today. Anna directs the MFA Curating and co-directs the Centre for Art Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was a co-founder and director, between 2013 and 2020, of Open School East, an independent art school and community space in London then Margate. She co-curated Chaleur humaine, the 2nd edition of the Dunkirk Art and Industry Triennale in 2023-24, at Frac Grand Large and LAAC in Dunkirk, on the relationship between energy and the arts over the past five decades. Anna holds a PhD in cultural geography and is the author of Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization (Villa Arson and Sternberg Press, 2025).
Links:
Goldsmiths Profile