Anne Grahams research interests focus on an investigation of identity and space.
She is particularly concerned with creativity and its role in the formation of identity, her definition of creativity includes cooking, gardening, and many forms of social and constructive activity as well as more conventional notions of art and craft. She creates portraits that are intended to embrace many aspects of the subject’s life but they are also intended to have universal applicability so that the viewer might feel that these works also resonate with their own life.
Anne Graham has exhibited in many curated exhibitions and created major public artworks nationally and internationally. She has worked extensively in Japan since 2000 undertaking many commissions and residencies. In June 2014 she completed a residency at the Kulturcentrum, Konsthallen, Sandviken, Sweden that culminated in a Solo exhibition. In June 2015 she took part in a residency at The Big C in Bilpin that producing work that was exhibited at The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre. In 2015 she was awarded a residency by The Power Institute of Fine Arts, Sydney University, at The Cite in Paris, this took place from Nov 2015 - January 2016. The work completed during this period was shown at The Bathurst Regional Gallery in 2016 and The Glasshouse at Port Macquarie in 2017. She has recently exhibited work at The Woodford Academy, focusing on the history of the Academy.