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Anna Chrystal

Trowbridge
Artist based in South West UK
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Anna Chrystal Stephens works with sculpture, photography and action. Her practice explores living strategies at the intersection of domesticity and the wild, looking at how outdoor skills and analogue processes can alter and improve relationships between humans and habitats. She uses natural materials, recycled materials and defunct camping gear to make objects with real or imagined purposes, forming links between ancient techniques, contemporary tools and sustainability. Anna facilitates participatory activities which investigate how old, land-based knowledge of ancient cultures and their residue in contemporary folk practices, can be both provocative and heartening in times of ecological unravelling.

During her time based in London, Anna was part of the artist group Vulpes Vulpes, alongside Carla Wright, Hadiru Mahdi, Laurie Storey. Together, the group worked with many other artists to organise and facilitate projects, whilst also exploring their own socially engaged practice. Anna is now based in Wiltshire and is co-director of SILT (Sustainable Image Lab, Trowbridge CIC) — an arts research studio and education space she runs with Alison Ballance.

Anna’s solo/duo exhibitions include: Coating at East Quay Watchet (Somerset), Anorak at SPACE (London) and Hardwick Gallery (Cheltenham), Something In Both Pockets at Lewisham Art House (London), There are No Firm Rules at Site Gallery (Sheffield) and Sometimes Biting, Sometimes Bit... at Urban Room (Folkstone Fringe). Anna has also featured in recent group shows at the Whitechapel Gallery (London), Broadway Gallery (Letchworth) and Forum Box (Helsinki). Since returning to the South West, Anna has been commissioned to produce artwork for Somerset Art Works (Water Histories Project), Trowbridge Museum (Weft), Hospital Rooms, Promenade and Od Arts Festival.

 

 

Over Cover Coat Structure

Camp Banner

Paracord Shoes

Hack Sink

Grid

Utility Cloak

Anorak

Water Histories

Mallow

Terrain - Hospital Rooms Commission

A Sick Logic

Edible Plant Survival Tarp

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