Anna Liber Lewis is a London-based ultra-contemporary artist whose practice occupies a compelling and distinctly personal territory within contemporary abstraction.

The title ‘NO’ speaks directly to one of Liber Lewis’s prevailing concerns: the complex negotiation between female autonomy and desire, between control and surrender. It is an artwork that operates with a quietly radical, entirely internalised language of abstraction, free of macho posturing, and possessed of great wit, range and freedom. Here, the composition of lines in abstract form spells out ‘NO’ verbatim.

Her paintings are built through an acutely physical process: she works across multiple canvases simultaneously, building and erasing surfaces using the combined languages of painting, print and drawing, pressing oil paint into the canvas with whatever materials are to hand, moving the canvas from wall to floor as the work demands. Central to this ritual is her long-standing engagement with ideas about how the body holds and releases trauma, with dance and music (most famously her celebrated collaboration with electronic musician Four Tet) frequently driving the work’s rhythmic pulse.

Anna Liber Lewis’ work is held in numerous private collections across the UK and Europe, and her 2026 solo exhibition, Spectral Interference, at Saatchi Gallery confirmed her as one of the most significant voices in contemporary abstract painting in the UK.

Educated at Central Saint Martins, where she completed her BA in 2001, and subsequently at the Royal College of Art — where she held the prestigious Genesis Foundation Scholarship, graduating with an MFA in 2015 — Liber Lewis has accrued considerable critical recognition, winning both the Griffin Arts Prize and the Young Contemporary Talent Prize, supported by the Ingram Collection, in 2017.