Lily Bunney is a London-based artist whose work explores the intersection of vulnerability and digital consumption. Bunney’s process and aesthetic is key to reading her work. Inspired by the interwoven history of the computer and the jacquard loom, her pointillist drawings play with the analogue and the digital; offering work which looks hyper-digital on the screen, and tactile in person. Her practice investigates how we construct and witness our own stories in an age of overwhelming narrative abundance, particularly examining the ways we use social media and popular culture.
Her recent exhibition "Girls Peeing On Cars" delved into the intimacy of female friendships and queer family-making, examining how these relationships create spaces for vulnerability and care. Utilising her pointilist style, she painstakingly created reverential images of her friends and anonymous women. Her work also engages with celebrity memoirs, fan fiction, and social media, as entry points to examine deeper questions about the desire for recognition.
Bunney's practice embraces the ephemeral nature of digital content while questioning how we document and share our experiences, the meticulous style transforming disposable images into quasi-monuments. Whether examining split-screen TikTok trauma narratives or the phenomenon of parasocial relationships, Bunney's art interrogates contemporary modes of storytelling and self-representation in an increasingly mediated world.