Lot 129 - Anna Bunting-Branch - Self Portrait - Stargazing

Acrylic paint on gessoed paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Marta Marsicka

About
Moving between painting, writing, animation and crafting, Anna’s work explores spaces of future re-vision: from feminist collective action to speculative fiction and fan activity. Current research thinks through childlessness as a condition in which futures might be forged in resistance to reproduction, using the experimental genre of speculative life writing to create fertile counternarratives.

Education
2022
Practice-related PhD, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2011
MA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2009
BA Fine Art, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL

Solo Exhibitions
2024
Holding Space, God's House Tower, Southampton, UK
2020
Warm Worlds and Otherwise, QUAD, Derby, UK
2018
Warm Worlds and Otherwise, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
2017
The Labours of Barren House, Jerwood Space, London, UK

Group Exhibitions
2023
Dear Leonora, Dotdotdot Festival at Volkskunde Museum, Vienna, AUT

2022
Figures in Focus: The Magical World, London International Animation Festival, UK
The Horror Show!, Somerset House, London, UK
Time Travel Across Many Worlds, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK

2020
Soft Bodies, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
Crespuscolo (DUSK), Bastione Sangallo, Loreto, ITA

2019
you feel me_, FACT, Liverpool, UK
All His Ghosts Must Do My Bidding, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
Waking the Witch, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Bonington Gallery, UK
La Nit del Cos, Bombon Projects, Barcelona, ESP
Quantum Identity Conference, Second Space Projects, Fitzroy, AUS

2018
Landscapes of The Future, Helsinki Contemporary, FIN
Waking the Witch, Oriel Davies Gallery, Powys, UK
POEKHALI! Landmark Takes Off, Bergen Kunsthall, NOR
We Who Are About To..., CCA Glasgow, UK

2017
These Rotten Words: Artists Films, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
Dark Water: The Dead of Night, CGP Dilston Grove, London, UK
Gush Vol. 1, Regents Studios, London, UK

2016
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK

Awards
2023
Climate Action Commission ‘a space’ arts, Southampton
2021
Honorary Mention (Computer Animation) Prix Ars Electronica
2019
Arts Council England Project Grant
2014
AHRC London Arts and Humanities Partnership Research Studentship
2011
Clare Winsten Memorial Award
2010
Luce Irigaray Circle Karen Burke Memorial Prize
2009
AHRC London Arts and Humanities Partnership Postgraduate Studentship

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Stargazing' and 'Note to Self' are two paintings from an ongoing series of self portraits that explore the personal negotiation of a world shaped by late capitalist technologies and attempt to capture small moments of poetry, reflection, and imagining otherwise.