About
Anna Jaxe is a portrait artist from London who is known for her layered stencils created with spray paint. Jaxe's work focuses on stories in the public realm that capture a love/hate relationship with the media. Her pieces are often centred around themes of mental health awareness, women's rights and queer rights.
She enjoys using mass-produced objects repurposed as a canvas for her portraits but also revels in painting on the street.
Born in 1989, Anna has studied Art at Kingston University and Reading University. She has represented herself at events across England and regularly paints on the street, particularly in London. In 2020, her large scale painting of ‘Percy The Giraffe’ was featured on BBC’s season 5 of ‘Last Tango In Halifax’, and in 2022, Jaxe painted a 5 metre high portrait of Suranne Jones as Anne Lister on the side of the Ring ‘O’ Bells pub in Halifax which is now on permanent display.
