Lily Bunney

In this episode, multidisciplinary artist Lily Bunney shares her journey and practice in conversation with Kildine de Saint Hilaire. Lily reflects on how she arrived at her artistic name while working as a teacher and wishing to keep her students from finding her online. She delves into her relationship with social media, her background teaching mathematics, science, and art to pupils aged 11–16, and how her love of art continues to shape her creative thinking. Her practice spans pixelation, found imagery, distance, abstraction, technology, and beyond. She revisits her pivotal exhibition at Guts Gallery, Girls Peeing on Cars, and speaks about the significance of that “here I am” moment. Over the years, she has experimented with a wide range of mediums including wood, puppetry, writing, crochet, animatronics, and painting. Today, she is immersed in her pixelated paintings, a process she describes in depth. Lily also discusses the creative community that surrounds her, the current energy and challenges of London’s contemporary art scene, and the often tricky dialogue around being an artist and talking about sales. Her practice strikes a careful balance between responding to fast-moving cultural conversations and allowing the time required to produce meaningful narratives that resonate with the times we live in.