ARTIST STATEMENT 2025
Anney White is an Edinburgh born visual artist, based in central Scotland.
Her practice is rooted in abstraction as a means to explore the emotional and physical boundaries that shape our inner and outer worlds. Especially drawn to the ways containment and freedom coexist in the body, in space, and in cultural expectations, Threshold refers to the space where those oppositions meet—a point of transition, tension, and potential.
Anney works primarily with layered acrylics, charcoal, and mixed media on canvas and paper. Her process involves building up and scraping back, masking off and revealing — methods that mirror the act of negotiating boundaries, both literal and psychological. She is interested in how a mark can serve as a form of control, but also as an act of release. Paint becomes a structure, a gesture, a question.
These works are not meant to resolve. They are spaces where something is held, but not fixed—where stillness suggests motion, and restraint carries power. Anney’s aim is to make that complexity visible: the quiet strength of containment, the subtle momentum of breaking free, and the beauty of the space in between.
