BIOGRAPHY
Annie Goliath is an interdisciplinary, award-winning artist-filmmaker, musician, researcher, and facilitator based between London and Hastings. She works across film, performance, installation, sound, eco-poetics, and speculative fiction to explore consciousness, ecofeminism, and ecology. Her practice often places past, present, and imagined futures into dialogue — asking what is lost, what is shared, and what might be reclaimed. Her work questions established hierarchies, bringing humans, more-than-human beings, science, and animist spirituality into conversation. Her practice takes an empathic approach that challenges dominant assumptions and explores alternative ways of knowing.
Key recent projects such as Embodied Listening (2023) and Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish (2025) explore plant and animal perception through immersive, participatory sensory experiences, combining soundscapes, performative elements, and layered narrative structures. These works invite audiences to engage actively with more-than-human modes of awareness, investigating how listening, embodiment, and imaginative engagement can expand understanding of consciousness and ecological attunement.
Collaboration and social engagement are central to Goliath’s practice. She co-founded AB Interlink with composer, artist, and educator Black Astronaut, and works with performers, participants, ecosystems, and archival material to cultivate relational, imaginative ways of being. Methods such as “entangled listening” and “embodied filmmaking” reflect a commitment to slowing down, attuning to other beings, and integrating philosophy and ecology into creative experience.
Her work has been supported by Arts Council England, CHASE Climate Justice Network, PECDA, and other organisations, and has been shown in exhibitions, screenings, conferences, and events across the UK and internationally. She is currently undertaking initial research for Perceptual Currents: Whale Aphantasia VR, a project exploring whale consciousness and neurodiverse human perception, extending the sound-led, relational, and participatory approaches of her previous work.
Education
2019 / MFA in Fine Art / Goldsmiths, University of London
2011 - 2014 / / BA Honours in Fine Art and Graphic Design / UEL
Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings and Events
2025 (Upcoming) / Screening of my artist's film 'Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish' (2025) at the Nature & Culture - International Poetry Film Festival / Copenhagen / Denmark / 2025
2025 / Screening of my artist's film 'Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish' (2025) at The New Earth Online Symposium 3.0 / Scientific and Medical Network / UK / 2025
2025 / Screening of my artist's film 'Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish' (2025) at the Spirituality and the Arts Conference 2025 / Harvard Divinity School / Boston / USA / 2025
2024 / SUSSEX FESTIVAL OF IDEAS / Hosted the New Beginnings Explored through Speculative Fiction symposium / Brighton / UK
2024 / LAUNCH EVENT FOR SUSSEX CENTRE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES / Research poster selected for display including QR code that linked to my artist's film 'Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish' / Brighton / UK
2024 / ROME EXPERIMENTAL 2024 - 9TH EDITION / ITSLIQUID Monti - Rome Art Space / Rome / Italy
2023 / CONTEMPORARY VENICE - 13TH EDITION / Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello / Venice / Italy
2023 / One World Project Screening (ACE funded) / Electric Palace Cinema / Hastings / UK
2023 / Sound Walk Event 2: Embodied Listening (in partnership with the CHASE Climate Justice Network Small Grants that this project was awarded and the arts organisation Arts on Prescription) / Alexandra Park / UK
2022 / SoCAL Festival Screening / California / USA
2022 / Sound Walk Event 1: Entanglements (in partnership with the arts organisation Arts on Prescription) / Alexandra Park / UK
2022 / Hastings Rocks International Film Festival Screening / St Mary in the Castle / Hastings / UK
2021 / II National Meeting of Performance and Gender / Centro de Arte Bernado Quintana CABQA / Querétaro / Mexico
2021 / False Memory / Rugby Art Gallery and Museum / Curated by Sarah Holdaway to coincide with Lindsay Seers Extramission 2 (The Trilogy) / Rugby / UK
2020 / I was going to take part in an exhibition, a film screening and was at the end of the process of securing funding from the Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant for the socially engaged art project Partnerships. All of these were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
2019 / GOLDSMITHS MFA DEGREE SHOW / Goldsmiths / London / UK
2019 / SAY AAAAAHHHHH / The Old Operating Theatre Museum / A collaborative group, performance event working alongside ten Goldsmiths students, Murat Adash (PHD) and the invited artists/writers Prof. Cathy Lane and Dr. Salome Voegelin / London / UK
2019 / Remains Screening / Tollis / Curated by Katrinis Tam and Wojciech Kawczyk / London / UK
2018 / Recycle, Rewind and Animate / The Ritzy Cinema / Curated by Annie Goliath / London / UK
2018 / Spring Cleaning / G04 Crown Place Apartments / Curated by Yuying Yang / London / UK
2017 / Between Democracies 1989-2014: Memory and Commemoration / An Eastern, Central Europe and South African exhibition curated by Judy Peter / Bratislava / Slovakia
2017 / Puncture / Pop-up Exhibition / Deptford / London / UK
2017 / Approaches to Fluidity / The Koppel Project Hive / Curated by Pauline Batista / London / UK
2016 / The Explorer Series: Invisible City Symphonies / a traveling exhibition of contemporary silent cinema presented with live original music scores and curated by Himali Singh Soin (London) and JJ Weihl (Berlin) / Various locations around London namely the Barge House, the Unison boat, a performance along the canal in Haggerston and St John on Bethnal Green
2016 / Rubbish & Romance / Deptford / London / UK
2015 / Between Democracies 1989-2014: Memory and Commemoration (alongside 50 artists including William Kentridge, Berni Searle, Minette Vari, Diane Victor, Gordon Froud, Vuzi Beechamp and Nelmarie du Preez) / Constitution Hill / An Eastern, Central Europe and South African exhibition curated by Judy Peter / Johannesburg / South Africa
2015 / Breaking the Chains / Tower Gallery / Curated by Chris Simpson / London / UK
2014 / Assisted with the launch of the OMSK online archive with the filmmaker Steven Eastwood / Moving Image Research Centre / UEL / London / UK
2014 / Swap / Mill and Co. Project / Curated by Laura Marchionni / London / UK
2014 / Time / Cock 'n' Bull Gallery / London / UK
2014 / State of Flux / AVA Gallery / I curated this exhibition / London / UK
2014 / Encrypt / The Crypt Gallery / I co-curated this exhibition alongside Desmond Zeederberg and Georgia Wisbey / London / UK
2013 / Signed, Sealed and Delivered / Green Gallery / North Carolina / USA
2013 / Innominate / 5th Base Gallery / Curated by Olive Brazier and Charlotte De Burghe / London / UK
2013 / Horse Meat / Cock 'n' Bull Gallery / London / UK
2012 / Discordia / Trinity Buoy Wharf / London / UK
2012 / Film Stills / Ground Floor Left / London / UK
2011 / Song ‘Damaged Valentine’ played on the BB6 Tom Robinson Radio Show and won the We7 Promotion Package / London / UK
2010 / Performed as a music duo (with a live VG) at the Grand Final as part of the Santander Eurodemo Contest after two voting rounds / Santander / Spain
Awards and Grants
2024 / ‘Beginnings’ Funding to host a symposium and produce my artist's film 'Internal shell of the Cuttlefish' (2025) / Sussex Festival of Ideas / Brighton / UK
2023 / CHASE Climate Justice Network Small Grants Award: https://chaseclimatejustice.network/small-grants-call-2022-23 / London and Hastings / UK
2022 - 2023 / Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants for the 18-month project One World / London and Hastings / UK
2021 / 1st Place Award for the II International Video Performance Competition LPG 2021 / Querétaro / Mexico
2021 / PECDA Award awarded by the Program of Stimulus to Artistic Creation and Development / Querétaro / Mexico
2017 - 2018 / Arts Council Grants for the Arts funding for the 18-month project Recycle, Rewind and Animate / London / UK
Conferences/Symposiums
Presented a scholarly paper followed by a screening at the Students of Spiritual Science Online Symposium: The New Earth / Scientific and Medical Network / UK / 2025 (Upcoming) Full Programme
Presented a scholarly paper followed by a screening at the Spirituality and the Arts Conference 2025 / Harvard Divinity School / Boston / USA / 2025 2025 Conference Abstracts and Biographies page Virtual Gallery
Presented at the 24th International EUROTAS Conference - Creative Bridges 2024 / Oxford University / Oxford / United Kingdom / 2024 Full Conference Programme
Presented a scholarly paper and screening of my artist's film 'Internal Shell of the Cuttlefish' (2025) followed by a workshop that I delivered (supported by Sophie Page Hall and the composer Black Astronaut), at the New Beginnings Explored through Speculative Fiction Symposium/ I hosted this symposium at the University of Sussex as part of the Sussex Festival of Ideas / Brighton / UK / 2024
Presented at the 7th “Memory, Forgetting and Creating” International Interdisciplinary Conference organised by InMind Support / Gdańsk in Poland (Online) / 2024
Presented at the Teaching and Learning Conference / University of East London / United Kingdom / 2013
Publications/Interviews
Article of my interview with Poppy Ismae, "Between the Art" blog: https://www.poppyismae.com/post/annie-goliath, 2024
'Embodied Listening' sound walk published on the Considering Climate podcast, 2024: Podcast Episode on Spotify
Writing published in the "Imagining Multispecies Belonging" zine & Multispecies Belonging on Substack, 2023 & 2024
Catalogue for the 'False Memory' exhibition, 2021
Catalogue for the 'Between Democracies 1989-2014: Memory and Commemoration' exhibition which include essays by Judy Peter, ISBN I 978-606-547-266-2: Catalogue PDF
Project Management and Workshops
2022 - present / Deliver art workshops for Culture Shift’s HAF Easter and Summer programmes / Sidley and St Leonards-on-Sea
2024 - Delivered a workshop to accompany the New Beginnings Explored through Speculative Fiction symposium / SUSSEX FESTIVAL OF IDEAS / Brighton / UK
2022 - 2023 / Project manager, Arts Award advisor, artist and workshop leader for the 18-month Arts Council funded project One World / London and Hastings
2021 / Co-delivered music workshops with the musician and educator Black Astronaut, to produce a collaborative song with SEN children for Hastings Thrives / Sensory Soft Play / Hastings
2021 / Co-delivered visual art workshop with the artist, musician and educator Ed Boxall for Culture Shift / De Le Warr Pavilion / Bexhill
2021 / Delivered visual art workshops for Culture Shifts HAF Summer programme / Freedom Church / Hastings
2017 - 2018 / Project manager, Arts Award advisor, artist and workshop leader for the 18-month Arts Council funded project Recycle, Rewind and Animate / London
2015 / Delivered spoken word and digital skills workshops for the ACE funded project Electric Bloom / Hackney Community College / London
2012 - 2022 / Delivered children’s art clubs and visual art workshops / A variety of mainstream and SEN settings / London