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 is an ongoing speculative still life structured through a repeatable embodied protocol. Each work begins with a question. 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 how alignment redistributes voice, allowing marginalised positions to assert agency within the field. A parallel sound work records fragments of the embodied negotiation within each configuration.
House Of Representatives
Breathing Through Our Eyes
2023
Photographic series
(u)s
2025
Durational performance video
(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.
(u)s
2025
Durational performance video
Video still
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.
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 asks what forms of life may emerge within bodies, land, and relational systems under strain.The work holds conditions for complexity in which relational dynamics are felt.Each investigation unfolds in dialogue with the specific conditions of place, from ecological landscapes and border zones to rural territories and urban environments in flux.Within these situations, interdependence, tension, and breakdown become modes of experimentation.From these inquiries, artistic propositions emerge through experimentation within the situations themselves. These may take the form of participatory structures, performative actions, or sculptural propositions.Traces of these investigations accumulate over time as part of a growing archive of the work.Vital Signs continues to unfold through site-based investigations, experimental residencies, and collaborations. Those interested in supporting or participating in future inquiries are welcome to get in touch via the contact page.
Rite Of Way
Private ritual–art commissions
Rite of Way is a series of private relational works created with individuals who find themselves at a threshold, including moments of transition, ending, or beginning that call for care, attention, and authorship.Each Rite is composed through an artistic process developed in dialogue with the individual and the conditions surrounding them. Through embodied attention, gesture, image, and symbolic action, a situation is created in which a crossing can be met deliberately.The form of each Rite unfolds through relationship and responds to the specific threshold being encountered.Some Rites occur in a single encounter; others unfold over a series of conversations and in-person days.Rite of Way works are created through invitation and dialogue.Enquiries are welcome via the contact page.
Ann Shuptrine is a London-based artist working across painting, photography, video, sound, installation and performance. Her practice investigates the body as vessel, mirror and metaphor of the social field, exploring states of entanglement, rupture and transformation where intimacy and threat, attraction and unease coexist.Her work attends to relational dynamics between self, other and world, often taking the form of images, situations or encounters that unsettle fixed perspectives and invite viewers into ambiguous terrain.Dance was her first creative language, and its influence persists as a way of structuring attention, shaping how perception, duration and relation unfold across her work. At its core, the work explores what binds yet divides us.With over two decades of embodied practice, Shuptrine has worked extensively within relational movement frameworks. Informed by Gestalt-based systemic enquiry and field-oriented practice, her work attends to perception, sensation and contact as both aesthetic and relational phenomena. Across media, she approaches form as a way of thinking, reclaiming modes of knowing that are sensate, relational and situated.She teaches internationally and mentors artists and practitioners working with embodied and relational practices.