Anya Gallaccio – An Apple a Day (2025)
Video (3:00): Anya Gallaccio talks about her collaborative art project An Apple a Day. Video by Remember Nature, 2025.
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An Apple a Day
The project was inspired by artist Anya Gallaccio’s creative practice and her exhibition ‘Anya Gallaccio: preserve‘ at Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK 28 Sep 2024–26 Jan 2025. An Apple a Day (2025) was created in collaboration with school children as a an art project and a creative teaching resource for future students as the project develops over the next 20 years. Students planted the An Apple a Day-orchard with heritage varieties of apples in a circular pattern designed by Anya Gallaccio at Leeds Court, a large estate near Faversham, UK.
About Anya Gallacio’s Creative Art Practice
Anya Gallaccio (b.1963, Paisley) is a Scottish contemporary artist renowned for her profound, site-specific installations that engage directly with organic materials and natural processes of transformation. She employs organic materials including flowers, fruit, ice, salt, and grass to create site-specific installations that invite processes of transformation or decay. The end states of her installations are hard to predict. A beautiful colour field of flowers decompose over the course of an exhibition, candles burn, and fruits rot; what first produced a pleasant in smell the exhibition space may turn into a stench. Anya has created a discourse about time-based art. The natural processes of transformation of her installations deepens our understanding of time, memory, and the beauty of impermanence.
Anya is often working with site specific art. Due to the temporal nature of her work, much of her practice is best known through documentary photographs and memory. However, her materials are not always ephemeral. She has also produced significant permanent public sculptures. In 2025, Anya was chosen to create a new memorial to the victims of the AIDS/HIV pandemic. This will be sited in central London and unveiled in 2027.
‘Her identity as a gay woman has been part of her public persona, having been recognized on influential lists celebrating LGBTQ+ individuals in the arts. This aspect of her identity, while not the explicit subject of her art, informs her perspective as an artist operating within and commenting on broader cultural systems.’ – The Notable People Project