Community

Alongside the studio, Anne Scott Wilson has spent many years teaching and working with communities: art and photography students, teachers, residents and other artists. She taught art and photography at Deakin University, ran classes for teachers in the Geelong area, and led an intensive camera obscura, cyanotype and 3D printing workshop at the University of Vaasa, Finland. She has shown students’ work in public, from the Gertrude Street Projection Festival and graduate exhibitions to The Familiar Unknown, the exhibition she curated in 2026.

She was one of the founders of Kings Artist Run Initiative in Melbourne. In 2017 she co-curated Sounding Histories, a nine-month artist investigation into the Mission to Seafarers building in Docklands for its centenary. In Geelong she has run drawing, writing and photography workshops in which residents imagined their city’s future, and gathered histories with the Macedonian community, whose former Ford workers dance the oro in her installation ORO. From 2013 to 2019 she ran Capture, a national photographic prize for high school students that she invented, and she judges art prizes.

Teaching and workshops

  • Making strange with purpose, University of Vaasa, Finland

    • Pop-up artist residency at the VME Interaction Design Environment, 2023
    • Intensive week-long course for Communication Studies students
    • Disused offices in the Fabriikki building turned into camera obscuras and studios
    • Students made cyanotypes and 3D prints
    University of Vaasa

  • The Familiar Unknown: Art in the Time of AI

    • Curated student work from ACV212 Digital Practices in Art and Photography into the exhibition, Burwood Library gallery, 2026–27
    The Familiar Unknown

  • Gertrude Street Projection Festival

    • Organised for students’ work to be shown at the festival, Melbourne

  • Deakin art and photography graduates

    • Coordinated graduate exhibitions over many years
    • Took students on gallery visits

  • Classes for teachers

    • Art classes for teachers in the Geelong area, as professional practice

  • Workshops in Geelong

    • Drawing, writing and photography workshops for local residents, with #VacantGeelong
    #VacantGeelong

With communities

  • Kings Artist Run Initiative, Melbourne

    • One of the founders of Kings ARI, an artist-run space in Melbourne

  • Sounding Histories, Mission to Seafarers Victoria, 2017

    • Co-curated, with Cameron Bishop, a nine-month artist investigation into the histories of the Mission to Seafarers building in Docklands
    • Coordinated events celebrating the centenary of the heritage-listed building, opened in 1917
    • Opening night on 11 September 2017, 100 years after the building opened, with performances, sound, seafaring knotters and a dinner for volunteers and their families
    • Exhibition 12–27 October 2017 with Maree Clarke, Catherine Bell, Michael Needham, Michael Graeve, Bishop and Reis, and The Rogue Academy
    • A joint research project between Deakin University and Mission to Seafarers Victoria
    • Started the Sounding Histories Facebook page, which holds the record of the project
    Sounding Histories, Mission to Seafarers Sounding Histories on Facebook

  • Reveal our City, Geelong

    • Organised local residents to help others collect and collate histories of Geelong
    • Histories gathered through the Beehive platform with Ars Electronica and Art Thinking
    • Shown as a live feed in Geelong City Hall for Geelong After Dark, 2019
    Reveal our City

  • The Macedonian community in Geelong

    • Part of #VacantGeelong (2015–17), with Deakin’s Architecture Vacancy Lab, looking at what the closure of the Ford factory meant for the Macedonian families who worked there
    • Collected histories with former Ford workers; up to 90 per cent of the region’s Macedonian families had someone at Ford
    • Former workers came to the #VacantGeelong Open Studio, 24 May 2017, filmed by SBS World News
    • ORO, 2019: a life-size projection of elderly Macedonian former Ford workers dancing the oro, a circular dance in 7/8, which visitors could step into and dance with
    • Shown at Geelong After Dark on the Town Hall forecourt, seen by around 15,000 people
    • Directed and edited artworks for Geelong After Dark
    • Made with Mirjana Lozanovska, Cameron Bishop and Akari Nakai Kidd
    ORO, Architecture Vacancy Lab #VacantGeelong Open Studio SBS News: After the factory

  • #VacantGeelong

    • Workshops for local residents imagining their city’s future through drawing, writing and photography
    • Researched the end of the car industry and its effect on families, through community events
    • Worked alongside the group’s architects and artists
    • Co-curated Iconic Industry at the National Wool Museum, Geelong
    Vacant Geelong

Prizes and judging

  • Capture, Deakin University, 2013–2019

    • Invented a national photographic prize for high school students
    • Grew it into the Capture Art and Performance prize, across Deakin’s visual and performing arts
    • Organised the prize and its openings
    • Brought together the judges, industry professionals
    • Set up the panel that selected the winners
    • Winners shown in a curated exhibition in The Project Space, Deakin University (2018 opening: 14 September)
    Capture Art and Performance prize postcard, 2018, with a photograph of two young men
    Capture Art and Performance prize, 2018 call for entries. Cover image: Sam Biddle, 2017 prize winner

  • Maritime Art Prize & Exhibition, Mission to Seafarers

    • Judging panel for the Maritime Art Prize, 2018, the year after Sounding Histories
    • Mission to Seafarers Victoria, Docklands, Melbourne
    Past Maritime Art Prize winners

  • Pixel Prize, ACU Gallery

    • Judge, several years running

  • Rotary Art Prize

    • Judge

Panels and talks