about

Anna Dunnill is an artist, writer and curator based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her visual art practice uses craft processes to explore prayer, ritual, queer identity, and ideas of transformation, healing and care. She completed a Master of Fine Art by research at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2019. 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.

Anna has held solo exhibitions at Front/Space (Missouri USA, 2019), Blindside (VIC, 2018), FELTspace (SA, 2018), and Verge Gallery (NSW, 2017), as well as numerous group exhibitions. She has undertaken residencies at the Royal Botanic Gardens Plant Craft Cottage (VIC, 2020), Holy Rollers (SA, 2018), Australian Tapestry Workshop (VIC, 2016), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (WA, 2015), and Fremantle Arts Centre (WA, 2014).

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.

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, among others. She is a print editor of Art Guide Australia.

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CONTACT

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

Anna in Cat Land (by Lisa Max)