Anna Sudbina

In Sudbina’s paintings pieces of frayed reality are artfully combined with areas of pure gestural abstraction, forming her dynamic visual language.

This contrast explores the relationship between actuality and human perception, a physical space and a memory of it. Layer by layer, she builds tactile planes interrupted by calligraphic lines of ink. Through a mastery of surface and composition, Sudbina’s paintings imaginatively balance the language of abstraction with references of contemporary life seen through the prism of her artistic vision.

Sudbina embarks on her artistic practice with three main stages in mind, for the first layer she considers a traditional figurative representation of reality, to set the colour scheme and composition, providing a context which she refers to as the Ego. Occasionally she begins with pure abstraction starting from the gestural base, allowing the canvas to guide her into discovering the composition. The second layer is Sudbina’s Id, an intuitive state of concentration in which her raw, gestural mark making is dictated by her subconscious. The third stage, the SuperEgo, is about finding compositional balance through non-action and negative action, standing back to analyse and then jumping forward...

UAL Central Saint Martins, BA
International University in Moscow, BA

2024 6 Sep - 6 Oct / Urban Rhythms: Modern Perspectives / Graystone Gallery / Edinburgh / 4-artist show

2024 10-13 Oct / The Other Art Fair / London

2024 5 Jun - 6 Sep / The Room Where I Am Not / Felstead Art / London /SOLO

August 2023 / GUELMAN UND UNBEKANNT GALLERY / Berlin
29/06-9/07 2023 / Espacio Gallery / London
May 2023 / Kingswood Art Center DAOH / London
April 2023 / Artdom / Oslo
March 2023 / Adria Hotel South Kensington / London
March 2023 / The Other Art Fair / London
Feb 2023 / Artdom / Soho House Mumbai
October 2022 / The Other Art Fair / London
2022 / The Summer Exhibition / Drifter Galleries / Queens Park / London, UK
2022 / Drifter Residency / London, UK
2022 / Dulwich Artist's Open house festival / London, UK
2022 / Artitude fair / London, UK
2020 / Private Collection / Morrison & Foerster / The Scalpel / London UK
2019 / SWA / The Mall Galleries / London UK
2018 / Present Perfect Continuous / Zverev Centre Of Contemporary Art / Moscow Russia
12th – 16th July 2017: FLUX Exhibition at The Chelsea College of Art
2016-2017 - Resident artist at By Other Means gallery
2016 - Forgetting II, By Other Means gallery, Unit 11, 38-40 Upper Clapton Road, London E5 8BQ
2016 - Forgetting I, By Other Means gallery, Unit 11...