I am concerned with living strategies, sustainability and societies’ changing relationship to the natural environment. I am interested in prehistoric archaeology, ecology, communities and collaboration.
I am concerned with living strategies, sustainability and societies’ changing relationship to the natural environment. I am interested in prehistoric archaeology, ecology, communities and collaboration.
My practice includes photography, sculpture, installation and the gathering and diffusion of survival skills and craft processes through walks, imagry and workshops.
I am part of artist collective Vulpes Vulpes: Four artists interested in social histories, the built environment, notions of community, education and social structures. Through running an artist led space together since 2009, hosting exhibitions, performances and workshops, we became involved in each other’s individual practices and in 2011 began collaborating alongside our programme.
http://www.annachrystal.com
Exhibitions
2017
May/ The Know Show, The Edge Art Centre, Bath
2016
October/ The Woodland World, Feral Practice, Shoreham Woods
Fiona MacDonald, Molly Maitland, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Glenn Morris
September. Know How, The Edge Art Centre, Bath
Avant Gardening, Emma Smith, Gayle Chong Kwan, Sandra Porter, Sovay Berriman, Vulpes Vulpes, LOW PROFILE, The Decorators, Will Shannon
July/ There Are No Firm Rules, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Anna Chrystal Stephens & Glen Stoker
2015
December/ The Artist Proposes, Site Gallery, Sheffield
Lucy Beech & Edward Thomasson, Beatriz Olabarrieta, Laura Wilson, Anna Chrystal Stephens & Glen Stoker
November/ The Blue Project
Elaine Reynolds, Berry Pattern, Vulpes Vulpes
June/ Structural Object, Curated by Linda Persson, House Project 27, London
Bridget Currie, Alison Currie, Peter Eccher, Lauren Godfrey, Kate McMillan, Benjamin A Owen, Linda Persson, Laure Prouvost, Ross Taylor, Anna Chrystal Stephens
February/ Foyle Foundation Exhibition, Four Corners, London
Anna Chrystal Stephens, Leah Gordon, Melanie King, Sophy Rickett and Spencer Rowell
January/ PIGDOGANDMONKEYFESTOS Curated by Shaun Doyle and Mally Mallinson, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Aid and Abet, Larry Achiampong & David Blandy, ASP, BAZ, Mark Beasley, Mathieu Beausejour, Shane Bradford, Kerry Campbell, Billy Childish & Harry Adams, Ami Clarke, Leigh Clarke, Common Culture, Leslie Deere, Arnaud Desjardin, Doyle & Mallinson, Benedict Drew, Patti Ellis, Plastique Fantastique, Laura Oldfield Ford, Anna Francis, Simon Fujiwara, Andrew Gilbert, Kenneth Graham, Oona Grimes, S Mark Gubb, Lucy Harrison, Emma Hart, Emma Holmes, Stewart Home, Kevin Hunt, kennardphillips, Dean Kenning, Peter Lamb, Abigail Lane, Cedar Lewisohn, Sarah Lucas, Dominic from Luton, Jenny Moore, Harriet Murray, Richard Paul, Mark Pearson, The Cult of Rammellzee, Clunie Reid, Tanja Ritterbex, Katie Schwab, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Melanie Stidolph & Max Catterall, Neil Taylor, Pat Rock, Jennet Thomas, Sarah Thorley, Jessica Voorsanger, Vulpes Vulpes, Alice Walton,Frank Wasser
2014
October/ Dodging Definition [performance], Make Use -Squatting the Cally Walk-, London
Diana Shelley, Maggie McDonald, Donald Gardner, Anna Chrystal Stephens and Hadiru Mahdi, project by: Carla Wright
September/ Horizontal Assembly, V&A Museum, Friday Lates -Art Licks-, London
September/ The Event [End of residency presentation and performances], Aid & Abet/ Wisbech Arts Colony, various venues; Wisbech Town
Paul Johnson, Lois Williams, Anna Chrystal Stephens
August/ Parlour [residency exhibition], Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent
Hadiru Mahdi, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Laurie Storey Carla Wright (Vulpes Vulpes collaboration)
May/ Terra, Passport to Pimlico [Event], London
Anna Chrystal Stephens and Carla Wright
February/ Vorkurs, Standpoint Gallery, London
Adam Burton, Paul Bailey , Edward Cotterill, Ruth Ewan, Georgie Manly, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Adam J B Walker, Carla Wright
2013
September/ A Cultivar, Abilene Gallery, Brussels
Hadiru Mahdi, Anna Chrystal Stephen,s Laurie Storey Carla Wright (Vulpes Vulpes collaboration)
July/ Folk Enclaves [performance] I Can Be Yours, Keef Winter, publication launch, X Marks the Bökship
Keef Winter, Hannah Newell, Douglas Park, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Tom Fox
January/ Magnum Opus, N/V Projects, London
Darren Banks, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Simon Davenport, Leo Fitzmaurice, Matthew Johnstone, James McLardy, Daniel Shanken, Gesa Troch, Lewis Teague Wright, Nina Wakeford
2012
December/ Glorious Estate, Bruno Glint Gallery, London
Anna Chrystal Stephens, Keef Winter, Carla Wright
November/ Kiss The Future, Schwartz Gallery, London
William Angus-Hughes, Rimma Arslanov, Vasilis Asimakopoulos, Andrew Child, Inez de Coo, Matt Gee, Virginia Hartnall, Jim Howieson, Hui-Hsuan Hsu, Jaykoe, Heena Kim, Colin Legge, Ashok Mistry, Yana Naidenov, Erin Newell, Ikuyo Omura, Elsa Philippe, Thomas Poeser, Liz Rodda, Jason Seeley, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Tyler Vipond, Carla Wright.
October/ Art Licks Annual, ICA, London. (Vulpes Vulpes collaboration)
Aaron Angell, Space In Between, Ché Zara Blomfield, Luke Drozd, Tom Ensom, Sara Nunes Fernandes, Edward Fornieles, Andrea Francke, Gandt, Ian Giles, Luke Hart, They Are Here, Jeremy Hutchison, James Irwin, Paul Kindersley, John Lawrence, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Kit Merritt, Jammie Nicholas, Tamarin Norwood, Or-bits, Eddie Peake, Hannah Perry, Copenhagen Place, Sabrina Ratté, Sophie Risner, Ilona Sagar, Tom Saunderson, Rosalind Davis, Aoife Van Linden Tol, Vulpes Vulpes, group+work, Rehana Zaman (and more).
October/ Salon Art Prize, MRA Project Space, London
July/ Goldsmiths Postgraduate Exhibition
June/ Edges, Latymer Projects, London
Anna Chrystal Stephens, David Spraggs, Carla Wright
June/ Approach Togetherness
Adam Burton, Adrianna Palazzolo, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Ben Garrod, Bess Shipside, Carla Wright, Hadiru Mahdi, Jonathan P Watts, John Rodgers,
Lawrence Leaman, Laurie Storey, Reuben Bowles
2011
July/ Interim Exhibition, Goldsmiths, New Cross, London
May/ Comfort Tones, Project/Number, London
Tom Crawford, Leo Fitzmaurice, Ben Garrod, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Lee Stone, Laurie Storey, Carla Wright
April/ The Second Attempt of Phane Turglo, Lewisham Arthouse, London
Stephane Blumer, Choterina Freer, Gloria Houng, Woo Jin Kim, Sally Kindberg, Gyuwon Lee, Jin Han Lee, Daniela Montenegro, Anna Stephens and Nina Wakeford
2010
Salon 10, Four Corners Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
We Interventions, Walcot Chapel, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
Anna Chrystal Stephens, Adam Burton, Ben Garrod, Laurie Storey, Carla Wright
Changing The Nature, Vulpes Vulpes Gallery, London
Ann-Marie James, Ally Mellor, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Iain Hales, James Page, Robert Fearns, Scott Massey, Yolande Kenny
Bright Newcomers, The Bowie Gallery, Totnes
Patrick Goddard, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Tom Butler, Kate Russo, Irene Prince, Will Amery
2009
Modern, Tudor Renaissance Fantasy, [interactive installation commissioned by 2nd Birthday for Sideshow] [event], Bournemouth
Salon, Islington Art Factory, London
What Is Crime, 198 Gallery, London
Davy Jones, Catherine Lindsey Davies, Anna Chrystal Stephens, Alex Masi, Reyaz Limalia
Antigone, Vulpes Vulpes, London
Annie Attridge, Adam Burton, Anna Chrystal, Dora Garcia, Patrick Goddard, Bruce Ingram,Matthew The Horse, Scott Massey, Catalina Niculescu, Herman Steinmeitz, Laurie Storey, Sophie Wiltshire and Carla Wright
2008
Rose Tint My World, The Agency Gallery, (S.T.O.R.A.G.E) London - solo
Annual Open, Cafe Gallery, London
Open Eyes, The Ariel Centre, Totnes
The Naked Truth, The Bowie Gallery, Totnes
One Week, Maverick Show Room, London
Climate for Change, Circle Community Projects, London
