Welcome to the Bunker Questionnaire, a series in which we ask Bunker Projects residents and exhibiting artists a few questions based on Marcel Proust’s famous Proust Questionnaire, a survey that purported to reveal a person’s true nature. We hope their answers and the accompanying photos allow you to get to know them and their work a little bit more.
Annesley is a textile artist and illustrator based in Pittsburgh, PA. Annesley’s practice is inspired by the vibrant possibilities of maximalism. While creating they combine their background in illustration, education, and traditional quilting experience to create colorful whole-cloth quilts containing bright colors, complex and emotional designs, and intricate stitchwork. As a disabled, queer artist living with chronic pain, their body sets the pace for their work, and they have come to embrace that slowness as an integral part of the art itself. They create work that reflects their way of life: focusing on joy, care, comfort and community.
Describe yourself in three words*
Joyful, colorful, collector
What is your idea of happiness?
A warm spring day with my friends sitting on a porch making art together. Happiness in my life is the people I love and making something every day!
What’s your favorite studio ritual or habit?
I love to be surrounded by art and color and things that bring me joy. I am a collector and I love to decorate the walls of my creative space with objects and materials that spark my curiosity and inspire me.
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