Anna Walker, PhD, is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, educator and writer. Her work explores trauma, memory, and ancestral intelligence across generations and lineages. Through photography, sound, moving image, and text, she investigates how the body holds and transmits experience—both personal and collective—and how we might create pathways for healing and reconnection with the more-than-human world.

Her artistic practice is deeply informed by her training as a body psychotherapist and her ongoing research into collective trauma, breath studies, and embodied memory. She works with the traces of trauma on both body and earth, examining spaces of separation and connection, asking how ancestral patterns move through families and communities, and what it means to tend to these inheritances with care.

Anna has published over 30 essays and book chapters, edited over 5 books of artist’s essays and research, and maintains an active writing practice exploring themes of kinship, ecological relationship, and what she calls “embodied discernment.” She is currently working on Walking the Spiral, a book that weaves ancestral knowledge, myth, ritual, and biography into a methodology for navigating our times.

With a PhD exploring trauma and memory through visual arts (Plymouth University, 2017), an MA in Fine Art (Southampton, 1998), and training as a body psychotherapist (CBPC, Cambridge, 2010), Anna brings together artistic, scholarly, and therapeutic ways of knowing. She founded Arts Research & Ecology (ARE), a monthly practice-research community running since 2018, and offers ancestral practice workshops through The Dreamer Awakes.