Anna Austin studied at the Adelaide College for the Arts from 2002 to 2008, majoring in printmaking.
Since then, she has exhibited locally, interstate, and internationally, and has undertaken multiple artist residencies, participated in papermaking workshops in Japan, and completed an internship in Chicago.

In 2018, during what she describes as a ‘midlife crisis,’ Anna decided to study nursing. She completed a Bachelor of Nursing at the University of Adelaide in 2021 and is currently undertaking her graduate year (TPPP) at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Travel has played an essential role in Anna’s development as a printmaker and has provided inspiration for her work since graduating from art school.
In 2014, she spent a month as a resident artist at Art Print Residence, near Barcelona. Motivated by a desire to deepen her understanding of the history of paper—a material fundamental to her practice—she explored Spain, the first European country to produce paper. She visited regions where the earliest paper mills were established and places such as the Paper Museum of Capellades, notable for being both a museum and a functioning paper mill.

The work she created following this residency was directly inspired by these experiences.