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Anna Grayson is a British Geologist, writer, broadcaster, and artist. She is best known for bringing Earth Sciences to popular attention in the UK through numerous books and BBC radio and television series in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 1996, Grayson made headlines around the world with the discovery of a blue mineral which at the time was believed to be hitherto unknown to science.^[1][2][3] After further research, the rock was confirmed to be an unusually large sample of the rare blue mineral, Aerinite.^[4]

Since completing an access course at Exeter College of Art in 2012, Grayson has pursued a second career as a successful artist, focusing on photographic pastiches of famous works of art.^[5] Five of her works have been exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London, and she has been featured on Grayson Perry's Art Club on Channel 4 television.^[6][7]

Grayson is the daughter of Harry Grayson, a British scientist who helped to develop in-aircraft radar during the Second World War.^[8] She was educated at Walthamstow High School for Girls, and went on to read Geology at the University of St. Andrews.^[9][5]

Following university, Grayson trained as a radio Studio Manager with the BBC. She went on to become a Producer and Presenter, featuring in segments on many popular series on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 5, including Science Now, Woman's Hour, The Food Programme, and You and Yours.^[10][9]

From the late 1980s to the early 2000s, Grayson fronted many factual radio and television series covering a variety of subjects. Her work primarily focused on popular science and she is best known for programmes which brought Earth Sciences into public imagination in the UK.

• Rock Solid^[32], The Natural History Museum, 1992
• Postcards from the Past^[33], BBC Education, 1996
• Equinox: The Earth^[34], Pan Macmillan, 2000
• Equinox Book of Science^[35], Pan Macmillan, 2001 (co-author)
• Level Up Maths^[36], Heinemann, 2008 (co-author)

In March 1996, Grayson made headlines around the world with the discovery of a blue mineral that could not be identified by scientists.^[1][2][3] She had purchased the rock at a roadside stall in Morocco in the early 1980s, where the seller had identified it as lapis lazuli, a relatively common blue mineral. During National Science Week, Grayson had taken the rock to an event run by the Natural History Museum in London, where museum staff were offering to help identify mysterious objects brought in by the public.^[1] After further research, the mineral was identified as Aerinite, a rare bright blue mineral originating in Spain and Morocco.^[4]

In 1998, Grayson was awarded the R.H. Worth prize by the Geological Society of London, for encouragement of amateur interest in Geology through the broadcast media.^[37]

In 1999, she won the Glaxo Wellcome ABSW Science Writers' Award for best science television, for her work on The Essential Guide to Rocks.^[38]

Throughout her career, Grayson has been a vocal force in the promotion of the role played by women in Earth Sciences and science more generally, as well as combatting sexism directed towards her. Whilst at a promotional photocall for The Essential Guide to Rocks, she declined the photographer's request that she pass her geological hammer to co-presenter Ray Mears, on the basis that she was the only trained geologist in the picture.^[39] In 2021, the geologist Stuart Monro was reprimanded by the Geological Society for verbally abusing Grayson at a dinner in 1999. Monro was accused of "shouting, spitting, and making sexist comments." Grayson made the complaint after being inspired by the MeToo movement.^[40]

In 2012, Grayson enrolled on an Art access course at Exeter College. For one assignment, she recreated Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait as a photographic pastiche, featuring modern-day subjects looking at their smartphones.^[5] The piece was highly commended by the South West Academy and in 2014 was hung at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London.^[41] A further four more pastiches have appeared at the Summer Exhibition, including versions of Leonardo's Mona Lisa, The Kiss by Klimt, and, in 2024, Rembrandt's A Woman Bathing in a Stream.^[6][41] Her work has been featured on Grayson Perry's Art Club on Channel 4.^[5] In 2022 Grayson put on a solo show of photographs at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, entitled The Photographic Art Thief.^[42]