Bio
Anna Lukala is a Finnish process and reserach-based visual artist with a primary focus on exploring more sustainable photographic processes. She can often be found foraging for natural colours and materials from her immediate surroundings, as well as from her dedicated pigment and darkroom garden. Her work draws inspiration from the intricate interconnectedness of natural ecosystems and the rich heritage of indigenous historic folk traditions. Anna's creations are known for their tactile qualities, prompting viewers to perceive the land around us in new and thought-provoking ways. Her exploration of materiality and dedication to ecological solutions are central to her practice, often taking precedence over the final artistic outcomes. Anna works and lives in Wescliff-on-Sea, UK
Commercial website lukala.com
Available for workshops, demonstrations, talks, mentoring and collaborations.
Please get in touch about print sales [almost, all works are for sale], and residency ops.
S E L E C T E D E X H I B I T I O N S
2 0 2 5
‘Into the Zone’ Journeys in the Thames Estuary, Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
2 0 2 4
Brighton Photo Fringe Collectives Hub - Common Ground, (LAPC)
The Active Image: Political Ecologies & Photographic Agency, Create Centre, Bristol
‘Grounded’ Gallery M.I, Wirksworth, UK
‘Symbiosis II’, Four Corners Gallery, (LAPC), London
‘Qualia’, AMP Gallery, London
‘Symbiosis’ London Alternative Photography Collective, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2 0 2 3
Sustainable Darkroom, HIP Photography Festival, Hull,
‘semblance’, The Old Waterworks, Westcliff-on-Sea
Group exhibition, The Old Operating Theatre, London
2 0 2 1
‘Tip of the Iceberg’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
2 0 1 7
100% Southend, FPG/Twenty One, Southend-on-Sea
2 0 1 3
Urban Photo Fest, Tate Britain
Projections On The Pier, City To Sea Project, Bognor Regis
2 0 1 1
‘Artside’ Southend-on-Sea
2 0 0 9
‘Come Together’ TAP, Southend-on-Sea
2 0 0 3
Formula, London
1 9 9 8
Joint Exhibition, Lapinlahti Art Museum, Finland
1 9 9 7
Young Designers, Business Design Centre, London
‘Reproduction’, University of Wolverhampton
1 9 9 6
Group Exhibition, Link Gallery, Urbana IL, US
C R E A T I V E F A C I L I T A T O R
2 0 2 4
The Other MA (TOMA) | Plant film developers and sustainable thinking in the darkroom
Sustainable Darkroom, Workshop Week | Cyanotypes & Botanical Toning: Growing,
Harvesting, Making
The Other MA (TOMA) | Pinhole and Solarograph workshop
Camp Kindling and Camp Wildfire | Cyanotype /Chemigram workshops
Making and Thinking with Fungi: Multi-Species Collaborations, a three-part course
developing approaches to working and thinking with mushrooms through paper-making.
In collaboration with Sustainable Darkroom
2 0 2 3
Focal Point Gallery | Phytogram workshop (Green Creative Open Day)
TOMA (The Other MA) | Cyanotype workshop
A series of five cyanotype workshops for a Southend neurodivergent charity STRM
Show&Tell / Sustainable Darkroom | An Ecology of Photography, Devario, Italy, teaching
Anthotypes, Chemigrams, Pinhole photography, Sustainable thinking
Kew Gardens, Community Open Week | Natural dyeing, eco printing workshops
Triple T’s (Turning Tides, SAVS, Children in Need funded project), facilitating creative
summer workshops for 8-12 year old children from the most deprived areas of Southend
TOMA (The Other MA) | introduction to natural plant dye workshop
2 0 2 2
Trust Links Charity | Overseeing the planning of planting a heritage dye garden, teaching
natural dyeing and pigment harvesting. This was a Heritage Lottery funded project
running over several months
Metal Culture Southend | 'Art makes Children Powerful’
. A month long programme with
Year 2 at Edwards Hall School, Leigh-on-Sea, investigating how nature can be used in
art by making cyanotypes on paper and fabric as well as creating landotypes at school
grounds, accumulating to a showcase outdoor exhibition
Acava, London | ‘Flourish’ Introduction to historic natural ink making with Oak Galls.
Trust Links Charity | Plan and deliver of 6 workshops using camera-less, alternative and
sustainable photography techniques, including cyanotypes, anthotypes, and lumen
printing.This was supported by ‘Let’s Create Jubilee Fund’ Arts Council England
2 0 2 1
Focal Point Gallery | Stanford Le Hope Primary School, Eco Printing workshops
Trust Links Charity | Natural Ink making workshop, Westcliff-on-Sea
The Agency Of Visible Women | Taking Space, Sharing, Space, and Taking Care, natural
Ink making workshop weekender, a funded programme
Focal Point Gallery | Intro to Digital Photography workshop, summer school holiday
activity program
Focal Point Gallery | Bundle Dyeing Workshop, In conjunction with artist Mary Mattingly’s
exhibition ‘Vanishing Point’
, Southend-on-Sea Pier
Incredible Edible, Kitchen Waste Ink workshop, Leigh-on-Sea
G R A N T S , A W A R D S , R E S I D E N C I E S
a-n Artists’ Bursary (2025)
Southend Culture Investment Fund (2023)
Pasture Projects Residency, Sudbury (2022)
Let’s Create Jubilee Fund’ Arts Council England in collaboration with Trust Links Charity (2022)
Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Award (2021)
a-n Time Money Space Bursary (2021)
Develop Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England (2021)
Short Listed for the Digital Award at The Editor’s Regional Press Award (2013)
P U B L I C A T I O N , C O M M I S S I O N S , C O N T R I B U T I O N S
Back to Basics, A guide to Ecological Photo Chemistry, by The Sustainable Darkroom
and Curiosolab (2024)
Culturally Curious Zine (2023)
Land Whispers Back, Land Art Study Group online publication (2023)
CollectArt Drawings Special Issue (2023)
Printed Matter postcard collection, Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2022)
Create Your Own Natural Ink, Activity Pack, Tip of the Iceberg FPG (2021)
Work Show Grow ‘United’ publication (2021)
of the land and us ‘Issue 01’ online magazine (2021)