Anna Stiles is a British-Irish graphic artist working across illustration, film, publishing, education, T.V, festivals and public art projects.

Born in East London, Anna's work explores the intersection of drawing, pattern and storytelling. With a background in illustration, drawing is at the heart of her practice.

Previous clients include 20th Century Fox, the Southbank Centre, Channel 4, End of the Road Festival, Warner Bros., Jealous Gallery, Diva Magazine, London Borough of Waltham Forest, Firepit Gallery, Carlton Books, SICK Magazine and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust.

East London born and based, working, exhibiting and shipping internationally. Shortlisted artist, The Association of Illustrators World Illustration Awards.

Endometriosis Illustrated

This work is about my body.

Endometriosis Illustrated began in sharing entries from my personal sketchbook that I've been working on since September 2022. The sketchbook is part of a body of self-initiated work titled "a complex pelvis", and documents my own diagnosis and ongoing treatment for grade four endometriosis, adenomyosis, fibroids and infertility. This work was born out of a desire to make sense of this deeply personal experience, and its name explores the language used by a gynaecologist to describe the advanced and complicated nature of this often misunderstood condition.

Endometriosis Illustrated has given space to quietly process this intimate period of illness and recovery, despair and hope, pain and perseverance. At heart, the project aims to build community and to raise awareness.

In exploring my own experience visually, I have been confronted by questions of what it means to be a "real" woman- mining for answers about how to move forward when our bodies are at odds with our desires, attempting to quantify and communicate pain, while reflecting on family-making and legacy.

These works bring together reassembled, hand-drawn elements, mark-making explorations and material experiments, with kept fragments, gathered relics and medical record archives.

It has been a lesson in catharsis and letting go, a way to navigate the fault lines in my own private landscape and to reframe the scars of my life.

When things go to shit, make the art.