bio
Anna Varendorff is an artist, designer and educator working in Melbourne, Australia. Varendorff has a BFA from Queensland College of Art Griffith University, a Master of Fine Art from Monash University, and she holds an ongoing lecturing position in Fine Art at Monash University. Her cross-disciplinary practice engages with contemporary jewellery, sculpture, and object design; compositionally and materially considering the act of making as integral to the human condition and employing it as a means of critical examination and reimagining.
She has exhibited in Australia and internationally since 2004, including Warrnambool Art Gallery kiki 2025; the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Melbourne Now 2023 and 2014; Milan Salone del Mobile 2017, 2018 and 2019; at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) New16 2016; and at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London Collect2008. She has created large public works for Brisbane City Council and various private clients. In 2016, Anna founded the design business ACV studio. ACV studio has received local and international acclaim, including a 2018 Wallpaper* designer of the year award for the work Glass Half Full Vase.