
Anna Daedalus (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation and book arts. Her work draws upon deep ecology and phenomenology to respond to the enveloping plenitude and multiplicity of the more-than-human world. Her ongoing photographic project, Enfolded, uses folding, sculpting and re-photographing to mimic the sheltering concavity of riparian hollows, wetland and woodland. Anna’s work has been exhibited throughout the Pacific Northwest, including at SOIL Gallery in Seattle, Littman Gallery at Portland State University and Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland. Collections include SF MOMA Library, Beinecke Library at Yale University and Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. She has been awarded grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and she earned a BA from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Anna and her husband/collaborator, Kerry Davis, cofounded Roll-Up Gallery in Portland, Oregon. The team’s 7 major projects have focused on themes of interdependence, the Anthropocene epoch and geologic time. Their work often employs a hands-on approach to foreground physical, tactile experience and the ideas of presence and immediacy. Their 2021 project and publication, Palus, is a meditation on the tidal flow of a Sitka spruce swamp, and arose from a remote residency with Oxygen Art Centre in Nelson, BC. Through outdoor installations, time-based processes and alternative photographic techniques, their recent place-based work contemplates impermanence, both in process and outcome. Anna and Kerry live and work in Southwest Washington State, near the mouth of the Columbia River. www.annadaedalus.com