bio

Anna Dunnill (b. Hereford, UK, 1988) is an artist, writer and curator based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her visual art practice uses craft processes to explore devotion and ritual, and ideas of transformation, healing and care.

In 2019 Anna completed a Master of Fine Art by research at the Victorian College of the Arts. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts, and a Bachelor of Humanities (Creative Writing) from Curtin University.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Things to Think Through (with Chelsea Farquhar, Post Office Projects, Adelaide, 2023), Processing Plant (West Space Window, Melbourne, 2022), New Prayers for Old Feelings (Front/Space, Missouri USA, 2019), A kind of collective breathing (FELTspace, Adelaide, 2018), Skin Rituals (Blindside, Melbourne, 2018), and To pierce, to puncture (Verge Gallery, Sydney, 2017).

In 2022 Anna curated the group exhibition A Plant in the Wrong Place at Counihan Gallery. She also runs Side Gate, a domestic exhibition project in her sharehouse, in collaboration with her housemates.

Anna has received project grants from the Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia), Creative Victoria, and the City of Merri-Bek. In 2024 she will undertake a three-week residency at Bundanon Trust, NSW. Previous artist residencies include at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens Plant Craft Cottage, the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Fremantle Arts Centre.

As a writer, Anna’s essays, reviews, articles, and fiction have appeared in Art+Australia online, un Magazine, Runway, Vault, fine print magazine and The Toast, as well as numerous exhibition catalogue essays. She is a former print editor of Art Guide Australia.

In addition to her solo practice Anna is one half of Snapcat, an artistic collaboration with Renae Coles that explores bravery, feminism, and collective action through participatory performance and craft. Snapcat’s work has featured in Perth Festival (2017), Newcastle’s This Is Not Art (TINA) festival (2016), and public art programs in Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane (2015–18). Their performance work The Lightning Furies was listed in The Guardian as one of Australian theatre’s “10 most groundbreaking shows by women” in 2016.

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CONTACT

Email me at annadunnill [at] gmail [dot] com, or follow me on instagram (@okayampersand)