Lily Bunney
Lily Bunney is a London-based artist whose work explores morality, labour, production, trauma, and emotional technologies. Bunney’s art locates new visual and literary representations of the relationships between technology and care, and transfigures elements of pop culture to examine and deconstruct the shame and guilt-inducing societal pressures.
Lily Bunney’s primary visual channel are large-scale pointillist paintings which envision the tensions of digital technologies and physical networks. She reworks and re-contextualises found imagery from the digital sphere, and through it investigates themes around navigating urban space, sexuality, moral deviance, profanity and the grotesque. Whether it be close up stills from soft-core porn or seedy paparazzi shots of celebrities, Bunney’s work critiques a culture based on consumption and shame.
Bunney’s artistic practice also extends into writing with a heavy focus on science-fiction and auto-fiction. She often engages with the body horror genre as an experimental and boundary-pushing site where desire and physicality collide.
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B. 1997 in London, UK. Lives and works in London, UK.
Education
2016 - 2020 BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
2018 Erasmus Semester, BA ArtScience, Royal Academy of the Arts, Den Haag
2015 - 2016 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Coventry University
Solo Exhibitions
2024 (Upcoming) Guts Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 A Feast For The Eyes, Guts Gallery, London, UK
2024 Going Down Getting Out, Elizabeth Fry House, London, UK
2024 HA interim show, hARTslane
2023 Reading at NOSEBLEED AND HUMMING, San Mei Gallery.
2023 Reading at Electric Frog, Project Haus.
2023 Lit-Crit Kissy Fit Verse, Through the Green Fuse, LOT Projects
2023 My Strange Addiction (performance), Cozyganza, Avalon Cafe
2022 themselves, also a disturbed climate, Winter Sculpture Park, Gallery No. 32
2022 Cyborg Futures, Tate Late, Tate Modern
2022 Kisses (Open Studio), Associate Studio Programme
2022 The Great Wren, Usual Business Gallery
2022 All In Bad Taste, AIR Gallery
2022 Waste, Koppel X Project Space
2021 Surrender & other works, Marx on the Table, Folkestone Triennial (Arts
Council England)
2021 Strange News From Another Star, Clarice, Peckham Pelican
2021 Untitled work, MAKE, Freelands Foundation
2021 Untitled (Satellite City), Beneath A Garden Waits To Grow, Brockley
2021 Community Gardens
2021 A Dog Who Doesn’t Know How To Hold A Stick, Aunty Freeze, CAVE
2020 Give me a Reason, Forced Collaboration
2020 The Swing Set, Central Saint Martins Online Showcase
2020 Pigeon Rant #1, Burnt Out, Windows Gallery 2019
2020 Pigeon Rant #0, Waiting, Central Saint Martins Open Studio
2020 Untitled Puppet Show, Scarlett and Friends Front Room Spectacular
2018 7 Fingers, Word in Transit
2018 Sketch-up entrance, Tate Exchange