Anna Macleod is a visual artist and independent researcher based in Leitrim, Ireland. Her work mediates complex ideas associated with contemporary, historical, and cultural readings of place through a variety of methods, strategies, and processes.

She employs quasi-scientific methods, interdisciplinary collaboration, performance, and socially engaged activism to critique contemporary landscapes and to build metaphoric spaces for re-imagining the future.

I had the pleasure of getting to know Anna and her work throughout the month I spent at Elsewhere. The woman is a wealth of knowledge on all topics surrounding water — it’s usage, history, religious and cultural relevancy across the globe, and more. We dig into all of it, plus how and why she built her socially engaged art practice as a full-time career.

Read more in the show notes.