Annie Frost Nicholson is a London-based interdisciplinary artist whose work examines some of the most uncomfortable and tragicomic aspects of the human condition. The Fandangoe Discoteca is a touring mini club which invites the public to dance out their grief, from climate rage to Brexit fury to bereavement, all intersections of loss are welcome. This piece was commissioned by Southbank Centre in July and August. Annie’s painting practice has been shortlisted by John Moore’s Painting Prize 2025 and Delphian Gallery as one of the winners of their Open Call 2024 and she lectures part time in experiential design at Chelsea UAL. She has an installation called the A Piece of Silk at RMIT in Melbourne opening in July, exploring the space between life and death.

Annie’s public realm work intersects with her painting practice, which has evolved into large scale wall hangings with textile narratives, reflecting upon memory, the human condition, the stories we tell one another and how our cultural and anthropological experiences of the world coexist. Annie responds carefully to time and space, working with community groups across London, the UK and internationally for many years to develop workshop programmes in advance of her installations. Her practice seeks to ensure that collective voices are carefully heard ahead of installation in public spaces such as hospitals, parks, canteens alongside her touring pieces at Tate, Design Museum, Southbank Centre and RMIT Melbourne.

Frost Nicholson has carefully developed most recently working in the public realm to create aesthetically powerful touring grief and mental health installations. The Fandangoe Discoteca, a touring disco for mental health and collective grief (London, Milton Keynes and Berlin 2023), complete with a series of Grief Raves, was made in collaboration with The Loss Project, K67 Berlin and Street Soundsystem. The Fandangoe Whip, an ice cream van for post-pandemic grief and mental health (Latitude, Design Museum, Tate 2021), and The Fandangoe Skip, a kiosk for mental health (London and New York 2022), received footfalls of over 200,000 and international acclaim, culminating in a BBC World Service documentary about her practice.

Her work has recently been on show at Young V & A, as part of a commission for the Yokai exhibition, at Charleston Trust as part of Supergraphics Newhaven, and permanent pieces are The Hope Exchange in London Bridge (LDF 2022) and Creativity Will Save Our Souls at London College of Communication (UAL, 120th Anniversary).

The Juicy Booth, a micro booth where you can come and release your shame and shed your guilt opened in Coal Drops Yard in September 2024 for London Design Festival, featured in Wallpaper*, The Times and The Financial Times' pick of LDF. The Juicy Booth then moved to Potsdamer Platz, Berlin from December 2024 - Spring 2025.

Annie’s next painting shows are at They Made This, (London) opening on October 30th and Wilton Way Gallery (London) in March 2026. Her work is shown at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool as part of John Moore’s Painting Prize until March 2026.

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