Bio

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Penelope Anstruther is a cross-disciplinary, research based artist. Her pieces are heavily rooted in her investigations into the intersections between ecology, geology and the fluctuations of temporal experience. Working in a range of media, including printmaking, painting, installation, photography and book arts she gathers materials directly from her surroundings, exploring a conceptual, cumulative practice in which works often rely on time-adherent rules to take them to completion. The process dictates the medium.

 

Born in Britain to a Thai mother and English father, Anstruther began her arts education at SACI, in Florence Italy, after which she completed her Foundation Year at City & Guilds of London Art School. She moved to the states in 2012 and gained her BFA in Printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, spending a semester in Osaka, Japan, focusing on monoprint & book arts. Her roving migration and multicultural heritage is reflected in her exploration of mental and physical landscape and psychogeography.

 

Anstruther has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, most notably at the Tate Modern, London. She has had solo shows in Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco and Oakland. She has been artist in residence at the Prairie Ronde Artist Residency Vicksburg, MI and the Mutual Artist Residency in East Oakland CA. Her works are in SFMoMA Library + Archives, the Gates Reading Room at Denver Library and numerous private collections.