About

Anno Mitchell is a UK-based artist working across installation, drawing and performance. Her practice explores the sea and navigation as sites of connectivity between geographies, histories, technologies and deep time.

With a longstanding interest in maritime movement and geological duration, Mitchell develops works that unfold through procedural drawing, generative systems and spatial sound. She treats navigation not simply as a means of travel, but as a way of thinking: plotting coordinates, tracing routes, mapping loss and drift across temporal scales that exceed the human.

A significant strand of her recent work centres on the 1967 wreck of the Torrey Canyon. Through AI-assisted writing, distributed audio systems and rule-based performance structures, she reconstructs and destabilises archival materials producing evolving ship logs, speculative voyage narratives and spatialised voice installations. These installations often operate through multi-speaker arrays and algorithmic playback grammars, allowing fragments of oceanic data, incident reports and fictional research archives to circulate as a living, unstable system.

Alongside this technical infrastructure, drawing remains central to her practice. Looking at speculative futures, deep time commemoration and procedural drawing.

Her work asks how archives might behave, how catastrophe reverberates across temporal scales, and how the sea functions not only as a site of disaster but as a connective field linking geology, trade and memory.