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Anna Chrystal

Trowbridge
Artist based in South West UK: Trowbridge (Wilts), Devon, and London.

 

Anna Chrystal Stephens is an artist using sculpture, action and photography to explore living strategies. She looks to outdoor knowledge and analogue craft processes as catalysts for altering relationships between humans and habitats. Exploring the frontier between domestic and wild settings, she gathers and disperses sustainable approaches and survival skills through research, walks, discussions and public workshops which investigate how ancient practices can be transformative and empowering. Anna is co-director of SILT (Sustainable Image Lab, Trowbridge), CiC est 2023.

Housing issues/ ecology/ urban - rural transitions/ expanded process/ know + tell/ camping/ co-creation/ community networks. 

Anna’s recent solo/duo exhibitions include: Something In Both Pockets at Lewisham Art House, Anorak at SPACE (London) and Something Biting at Folkestone Fringe. Whilst based in London Anna also worked as part of Vulpes Vulpes with 3 other artists, organising exhibitions alongside a shared art practice. Since returning to the South West she has been commissioned to produce socially engaged projects for Hospital Rooms, Somerset Art
Works, Promenade and Od Arts Festival.

 

 

Camp Banner

Paracord Shoes, 2020

Hack Sink, 2019

Grid, 2013-2020

Utility Cloak, 2019.

Anorak

Water Histories

Mallow

Terrain - Hospital Rooms Commission

A Sick Logic

Edible Plant Survival Tarp

Dark Camp

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