Anna-Wili Highfield is an Australian artist living and working on Gadigal land, Sydney. Her sculptures are collected globally and have appeared in various publications, including the cover of Sculpture Review USA. Highfield has exhibited in Australia, the USA, France, China, Hong Kong, and Turkey. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The National Art School, Sydney.

Highfield’s works explore the organic qualities and resistance of materials, generating a tension between a complex realism of form and the limitations and economy of materials used. They represent life in an immediate way that conveys the energy, movement, and physical character of different creatures. She aims to engineer a moment of contact with nature, in a way that emphasises both the differences and startling similarities, of human and animal forms and consciousness.

Exhibitions include:

Sydney Contemporary, Olsen stand, 2022.

Mating Dance, Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, 2021 and Mudgee Arts Precinct, 2022.

Companions, Olsen Gallery, Sydney, 2019.

Spirit Faces, Olsen Gruin Gallery, NYC, 2018.

Animals, Carriageworks, Sydney, 2015.

Highfield has collaborated with Hermès in Megeve, Istanbul, Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, 2011 to 2023.

News:

Anna-Wili’s portrait busts of composers; Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, Hildegard Von Bingen and Nina Simone; commissioned by The Composing Women’s Program at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and The University of Sydney, have been acquired by Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney. They remain on display at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where they were unveiled in 2022.