Anna Horton Cremin uses games and play to bring people together in new and unexpected ways. She uses playful interventions to talk about complex issues including what we want our future world to be like. Her practice is currently looking at how the first playgrounds were created: built by children out of the materials they found in the destruction and dereliction of WWII. These acts of building and playing started the adventure playground movement, allowing children to take risks and create their own environments. She is using these methods to explore themes around climate change and the natural envrioment. Through Anna’s practice, she wants to encourage audiences to take risks by building their own play spaces, giving chances for people to imagine alternative futures together. Anna Horton Cremin (b.1991) is an artist living and working in Manchester. She completed her BA in Fine Art at Birmingham City University in 2013. Recent commissions include; Park Portals, Rediscovering Salford, 2020; Outside In, Rule of Threes, Bootle, 2020; Games Generator (Forest of Imagination, Bath, Make My Day, Morecambe Bay and Love Parks Week and Festival of Manchester, 2019); Third Room Residency, Left Coast (Blackpool, 2019); Good Game, (Ampersand Projects, Birmingham 2018); She has been selected for Social Art Summit (Sheffield 2018); Artist Jamboree (Devon, 2018) and Creative 50 (Manchester International Festival 2017). She is resident at Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol. As part of my recent collaborative duo One Five West (with Sophie Bullock) we were commissioned for Wild Worlds Festival, Chester Zoo, 2018. We were also selected for the Arts+Tech creative practice accelerator, one of three £1m national pilots, set up by ACE & Innovate UK. Collaborative exhibitions include ‘WARP Festival’, The Whitworth, 2016 ‘Hello Shenzhen’, the V&A 2016 & ‘DigiLabs’, University of Manchester 2016. We were selected for ‘New Talent Residency’ at Pervasive Media Studio, 2016.
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