Selected Work

Beings

2025-ongoing
Acrylic on paper

Being(s) is an ongoing series that asks what forms of intelligence emerge when dominant systems of knowledge falter. The paintings function as propositions, testing how thinking shifts when abstraction can no longer hold and perception returns to contact.Developed through a choreographic process of bodily attention, form is followed rather than imposed. Figures hover between fang, limb, wound, and threshold, refusing stable categorisation. They arise from rupture, where inherited orders no longer hold. Paint behaves as intelligent fluid, directing the creation of form.Being(s) activate upon encounter. They remain close to where they emerge, operating within instability. What they are making remains uncertain.Selected works from the series are presented in Monsters of Paradise, Athens, 2026.

House of Representatives

2023-ongoing
Object constellations, photographed

House Of Representatives
Breathing Through Our Eyes
2023
Photographic series

House of Representatives is an ongoing speculative still life structured through a repeatable embodied protocol. Each work begins with a question on behalf of marginalised bodies. Domestic objects are gathered and assigned relational roles, forming a provisional constellation within the interior space.The artist enters the configuration physically, inhabiting each position in turn and tracking shifts in sensation and alignment. A single alteration is introduced, and the process is repeated. Through phenomenological dialogue, objects become imbued with life and begin to assert their agency within the relational field.Operating within the domestic interior, the work examines whether systems created within the labour of patriarchal dynamics can be reorganised, allowing marginalised positions to assert agency within the field. A parallel sound work is in development.

(u)s

2025
Durational performance video

(u)s
2025
Durational performance video
Video still

(u)s examines autonomy through the encounter of body and earth. Through cycles of pouring and erasure, a boundary takes shape. Mirroring reveals where symmetry becomes unstable; erosion reveals the crack in the reflected form. The term autonomous fractures across the work, exposing instability within the form. The work asks whether sovereignty can be sustained when the self is never singular.Developed initially as a single-channel performance within Vital Signs I, the work was exhibited at Dialogues Hybrid Arts (2022) and presented at Connective Symposium, Fontys University, Tilburg (2023), with support from Empathy & Risk.

The Future Is Behind Us

2022
Sound work with spatial installation (in collaboration)

The Future Is Behind Us is a sound work developed within a collaborative installation with David Cotterrell. Emitted across a circular bed of flour and placed in dialogue with his light work Maelstrom, the piece uses analogue and digital layering to disrupt linear time, producing loops and temporal drift. Informed by a linguistic inversion of temporal orientation in which the past is understood as in front and the future behind, the work emerges from embodied experiments in reversal, including walking backwards through domestic and public space to record altered perception. Sound and light move between synchrony and divergence, at times appearing unified and at others in tension.Exhibited at Deptford X, 2022 as part of Deptford Eggs with co-exhibitors Ian Goldstone and Peut-Porter. With support from ACAVA.

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Installation views: David Cotterrell

Ausculto

2024
Photographic series

Ausculto is a cycle of ritualised self-portraits exploring what occurs when instinct returns within spaces that both shelter and constrain us.Developed through embodied engagement with the built environment and natural elements, the series unfolds where the boundary between body and material begins to dissolve. Nature presses against and through constructed form.Emerging from a rupture that unsettled habituated perception, the work traces how the boundary between interior and exterior erodes when life as we perceive it becomes untenable. What emerges in this blurring of body and environment? Whose agency takes hold as the distinction between the two collapses? Ausculto listens for the pulse that signals what cannot be contained.

Vital Signs

An ongoing research ecology

Field study, Morocco, 2023

Vital Signs explores what forms of life emerge within bodies, land, and relational systems under strain.The work operates within conditions of complexity where relational dynamics are felt rather than abstracted.Each investigation unfolds in dialogue with specific conditions of place, from ecological landscapes and border zones to rural territories and urban environments in flux.Here, interdependence, tension, and breakdown become sites of experimentation.From these inquiries, artistic propositions emerge through experimentation within the conditions themselves. These may take the form of performative actions, sculptural propositions, or site-responsive structures.Traces of these investigations accumulate over time as part of a growing archive.Vital Signs continues to unfold through site-based investigations, experimental residencies, and collaborations. Those interested in supporting or participating in future research are welcome to contact [email protected]
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Rite Of Way

Private ritual–art commissions

Rite of Way is a series of private relational works created at points of threshold, moments that demand attention, authorship, and crossing.Each Rite is composed through an artistic process. Through embodied attention, gesture, image, and symbolic action, a precise situation is constructed in which something can be clearly known and marked.The work is oriented toward a moment of recognition that cannot be undone.Some Rites take place in a single encounter. Others unfold across a small number of preparatory conversations followed by one or two in-person days.Each work is composed by Ann Shuptrine.A small number of commissions are opened each year.If you are approaching such a threshold and wish to enquire, please write to
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Ann Shuptrine is a London-based artist working across image, situation and relational works, including painting, sound, installation and performance. Her work engages the relational field between bodies, materials and environments, often positioning the body as both mirror and vessel of the social field.
Her practice unfolds through images, situations and encounters that stage conditions of entanglement, rupture and transformation, where intimacy and threat, attraction and unease coexist.Repetition, return and circular structures recur throughout the work, tracing how relational patterns form, break down and reconfigure.
Attentive to moments when familiar structures begin to fracture, the work asks what forms of perception and relation emerge when dominant forms of knowing no longer hold.Dance was her first creative language and continues to inform how attention, duration and relation are composed across the work. Informed by embodied practice and long-standing engagement with Gestalt-based systemic inquiry, she approaches form as a mode of thinking through the dynamics that bind yet divide us.Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches and mentors internationally in embodied and relational practices.

Contact
For enquiries, commissions, or collaborations: [email protected]