77. Anne Carney Raines - Nitrophyte

2026
Oil on panel
15.24 x 10.16 x 2.5 cm

Anne Carney Raines is an American-born painter whose practice draws on her background in scenic painting to create theatrical, psychologically charged spaces. Her paintings frequently depict constructed interiors populated by curtains, murals, doorways, blocked passages and layered architectural spaces that suggest stages or sets. Through these invented environments, Raines explores ideas of artifice, illusion and memory, particularly in relation to landscape and the ways places are imagined, remembered and emotionally reconstructed.

Balancing the intimate and the uncanny, her compositions often blur distinctions between interior and exterior, reality and fabrication. Influenced by theatre design as well as personal memory, her paintings evoke spaces that feel both familiar and elusive, where nature appears mediated through architecture, decoration and performance.

Raines completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2021, following a BFA in Painting with a minor in History of Art from Indiana University Bloomington in 2014.

Recent exhibitions include Table Manners at Barbati Gallery (2026); the duo exhibition Imago at Soho Revue (2025); and the solo exhibition Kudzu Blue at Wilder Gallery (2025). Other notable exhibitions include Inside/Outside at Soho Revue (2024), the Drawing Biennial 2024 at Drawing Room, and Mi Basta Uno Scorcio at Rubedo Arts. In 2023 she participated in the British Museum touring exhibition Drawing Attention at York Art Gallery and presented the solo exhibition Hopscotch at Soho Revue Gallery.

Raines was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in both 2020 and 2021 and has received multiple Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant awards, as well as the Hine Painting Prize. Her work is held in collections including the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings, the Government Art Collection, the Soho House Collection and the Hine Collection in France.