Artist Bio
Anna Victoria Pottie is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist based in Wood Buffalo, Alberta, whose practice spans visual, literary, and media arts. Rooted in experimentation, play, and material exploration, her work examines storytelling, perception, and the evolving relationship between the physical and digital worlds through layered compositions and symbolic imagery.
With a background in graphic design, Pottie brings a strong sense of composition, texture, and visual balance to her practice. Her work often incorporates found imagery, upcycled textiles, embellishments, illustration, and mixed media techniques, blending tactile processes with digital manipulation. Beginning with traditional materials such as collage, print media, and found objects, many works are later transformed through photography and digital editing, creating pieces that exist between analogue and digital spaces.
Influenced by sustainability, nostalgia, and contemporary media culture, Pottie’s practice reflects an ongoing negotiation between consumption, technology, memory, and materiality. Through collage, textile-based work, and wearable art projects such as Millennial Life Crisis Tees, she reimagines discarded and everyday materials as spaces for humour, reflection, and personal narrative.
Her work has been featured on the cover of the Arts Council Wood Buffalo’s 2025 Annual Report, in NorthWord Literary Magazine, and in exhibitions including Collective Threads (2025). She is currently guest editor for NorthWord Magazine’s Issue 34, themed “Nonsense,” set to publish in September 2026.
Artist Statement
My practice explores storytelling, perception, and the nuances of human experience through an evolving relationship between physical and digital processes. Working across collage, mixed media, textiles, illustration, and digital tools, I’m interested in how materials, imagery, and layered compositions can hold emotion, memory, contradiction, and play simultaneously.
Most of my work begins physically through collage, found imagery, magazine clippings, textiles, handwritten text, and objects with implied histories. I’m drawn to materials that feel temporary, imperfect, nostalgic, or discarded. Layering becomes both a visual process and a conceptual one, where fragments accumulate and create new meanings through juxtaposition.
Many works are later photographed and reworked digitally using tools such as Adobe Photoshop and Fresco. Saturation, illustration, distortion, and digital layering become extensions of the tactile process rather than replacements for it, allowing the work to move fluidly between analogue and digital spaces.​​​​
Sustainability and material consciousness are also important parts of my practice. My long-standing relationship with thrifting, upcycling, and rejecting fast fashion informs both the aesthetics and ethics of my work. Found materials carry histories, textures, and evidence of use that cannot be replicated digitally, while also reflecting my interest in consumption, preservation, and reuse.
While some works examine the emotional and cultural tensions of existing within increasingly technologized systems, others are rooted in personal narrative, humour, memory, environmental concerns, or intuitive experimentation. These layered compositions become spaces to explore contemporary life, societal expectations, connection, and transformation while leaving room for ambiguity, interpretation, and play.
Summer Makers Market at Kiyam Park | August 2025
Summer Makers Market at Kiyam Park | August 2025
Collective Threads Community Art Exhibit | August 2025
Collective Threads Community Art Exhibit | August 2025
Publications/Projects
Northword Literary Magazine Issue #33 - April 2026
Rendering Visions Documentary - October 2025
Northword Literary Magazine Issue #32 - September 2025
Arts Council Wood Buffalo 2024 Annual Report (Cover Artwork) - April 2025
Exhibits
Collective Threads Community Art Exhibition - Kirschner Family Community Art Gallery
August 10 - September 14, 2025
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