Anna will be sharing her process during TAC's Give Back Market.
Come on Saturday, December 13, 3 - 7pm + Sunday, December 14, 1 - 5pm to learn more about Anna's work.
"Anna works at the intersection of sculpture, textiles, and photography, exploring themes of vulnerability, memory, and the body through the tension between materials. Her practice moves between the personal, the public, and the political, addressing trauma and the wounded body as symbols of resistance to pain.
Recently, she has become interested in the relationship between the body and the hostile environments of construction and gentrification in big cities. In this context, she questions how to inhabit the body in transitory spaces, and how everyday life exerts both traumatic and resilient impacts on the bodies.
Through the collection of abandoned objects, Anna engages with the concept of orientation, transforming once utilitarian items into new sculptural forms. In this confrontation of materials, she explores vulnerability and protection, seeking a delicate equilibrium between the two and imagining new ways of inhabiting and coexisting.
By working with bobbin lace and reconfiguring found objects, she creates fragile textiles that seem to escape physical boundaries, opening space for new imaginaries to emerge. The act of creating fabric becomes a healing gesture, one that highlights the origin of the wound and travels through the skin itself.
Photography has recently taken on a more prominent role in her practice, serving as a means of capturing the body’s interaction with the reshaped materials she works and converting the result in a form of timeless performance."
Anna Ill (Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, 1990) is a London-based visual artist. She holds an MA in Art and Space from Kingston University, London (2017), a BA in Textile Art from Escola Massana, Barcelona (2014), and a year course in Decoration from École Boulle, Paris (2015).
In 2025, she was commissioned to create a permanent public sculpture for Una Boccata d’Arte in Simeri, Italy. Her work received the Acquisition Prize at Contextile 2024 (Portugal) and was selected for the Antoni Vila Casas Sculpture Prize (Spain).
Anna Ill has held solo exhibitions at L&B Gallery, Barcelona (2023); Centre Cultural La Mercè, Girona (2022); Filet Space, London (2020); and Sensei Gallery, London (2016).
She has participated in numerous international group exhibitions including Sid Motion Gallery (London, 2025), Fundació Úniques (Barcelona, 2025), Textile Arts Center (NY, 2024), Wonzimer (LA, 2023); Fundació Vila Casas (Barcelona, 2021-24); Laterna Magica Museum (Copenhagen, 2022); Sala Parés (Barcelona, 2018); Incheon Art Platform (Seoul, 2018); Le Beffroi of Montrouge (Paris ,2017), Spazio Culturale Antonio Ratti (Como, 2018).
Her residencies include All Art Now (Online, 2021), In-Ruins (Italy, 2021), Jiser (Tunisia, 2019), and the JCE Biennale (Paris, 2017).
We welcome Anna to the studio as our December WIP resident!
You can visit her studio on Sundays from 2pm to 5pm.
Textile Arts Center’s Work in Progress (TAC WIP) is a window into the studio practice of contemporary artists and designers that engages the public in a dialogue with the field of textiles.