Anna Dunnill

THE body holds itselF

Rie Delange & Anna Dunnill
2025

The Wandering Room
7 – 8 June 2025

The body holds itself brought together the work of Anna Dunnill and Rie Delange, to explore material ideas of fragility, embodiment and accumulation.

In examining relationships between the body and materials, the exhibition also looked at the way that personal experiences can be metabolised and metamorphosed through art practice and the physical process of making.

Anna Dunnill, A (w)hole constructed of parts (necklace series), 2025

Chrysanthemum petals from Jane’s bouquet

Silk twined from studio waste, delphinium petals from Izzy’s bouquet, marigolds from Jane’s garden

String twined from thread scraps and a tiny bone found in my garden

Corn husks from dinner, corn silk grown by Isabelle

Beads made from flowers (soursob from Merri Creek, camellia from Isabelle’s garden), silk thread

Fennel stalks from my garden, beads made from woad leaves, silk thread

Woad seeds and garlic bulbils from my garden, silk thread

Cosmos flowers and fennel stalks from my garden, silk thread

Beads made from flowers (corn poppies found near my parents’ house in WA)

Beads made from flowers in collaboration with Chelsea (calendula, cosmos, dahlia, indigo leaf and tulip from Coburg; bougainvillea, daisy, honeysuckle, rose and soursob from Torrensville)

Beads made from flowers (soursob and corn poppies found near my parents’ house in Fremantle)

Beads made from flowers (calendula, cosmos, camellia) with ground eggshell

Beads made from flowers (camellia from Isabelle’s garden)

Anna Dunnill, Digesting myself, 2025

Wall drawing (amaranth and woad leaves from my garden, marigolds from Jane’s garden), woad seeds from my garden, chrysanthemum petals from Jane’s bouquet, printed poem with found stone paperweight