Independent Artist-in-Residence
Anna is a practising landscape architect, artist and lecturer in landscape architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. She received her BA (Hons) in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art in 2011 and her Master’s in Landscape Architecture from Edinburgh College of Art in 2014. Her interests, practice-based research, and approach to teaching are situated at the intersection of landscape architectural and artistic practice.
Anna’s work navigates complexity and uncertainty to create ecologically explicit landscape architecture, a concept inspired by Timothy Morton’s work on eco-aesthetics, and adapted here to foreground and support more-than-human worlds in the context of landscape interpretations and design. Drawing on relational dynamics, she develops graphic representations informed by multi-scopic field recordings, which highlight the intricate processes, rhythms, and interactions of more-than-human landscapes.
We hosted Anna Rhodes in The Gardener’s Cottage in December 2025.
“This year, I have been making seasonal visits to Pipers’ Peace a WW1 peace garden, which I designed and installed with collaborator Melissa Orr in Arras, France in 2018. Tracing its evolving ecology, local stewardship, and seasonal character, I used the time at Forgan Art Centre to compose my field drawings and grow representations of the garden that foreground complexity, transience, and care.”
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