Over the past ten years or so, Anna Ilsley’s oil paintings, frescoes and drawings have been Spaces in which she contemplates intimacy and sensuality in the face of archaic ideals of female chastity, sin and sexiness that still haunt contemporary culture.More recently her paintings celebrate motherhood and mothering, whilst responding to the inherent expectations and responsibilities drawn up from the murky depths of our mother and child image-world.
Anna is based in Suffolk and graduated from Royal Drawing School in 2010 and University of Brighton’sBA in Fine Art Painting in 2006. Recent exhibitions includeCrab Bisque at St Chad’s Projects London, Lovers Lane at Oceans Apart, Manchester and Dearly Beloved at Galleri Tom Christoffersen. She has taken part in many Artist in Residence schemes, most recently at Newnham College, University of Cambridge for which she received an Arts Council Research and Development Award
