Annika Earley - August 2025

photo by Marion Earley

Annika Earley (she/they) makes drawings and sculptures about the demands and joys of parenthood, sensuality and sexuality, gender, and pre-teen nostalgia.

Earley grew up in rural Switzerland but moved to mid-coast Maine in 2000. When she was very young, she used to play in the woods; there she found a small, shingled hut with tiny windows and a locked door. Raised on Grimm stories, Earley was absolutely certain that this must be a witch’s house and proceeded to avoid it at all costs as she had no interest in being baked into a pie. At age twenty, she returned to Switzerland for the first time after ten years and discovered that this hut was not a witch’s house but, in fact, a storage shed belonging to the forestry department of her village. This experience continues to have a profound impact on her work.

Visit Annika’s website here.