SIAN BONNELL
Photographic Artist, Mentor, Curator, UK
Sian Bonnell is a UK based artist, living and working in Devon. Her work is concerned with concepts surrounding photography and its relations with objects, environment and performance. Sian’s work has been exhibited and published widely and is held in many public and corporate collections.
Sian established TRACE, the curation, publishing and mentoring project in 1999. Artist books published under the imprint TRACE Editions include Wild Track the first book of poetry by Mark Haworth-Booth, Imagine Finding Me by Chino Otsuka and Villa Mona by Marjolaine Ryley. Between 2014 and 2019 she curated an annual exhibition of UK graduate photography, featuring over 250 images selected from 16 Universities for the Pingyao International Photography Festival held each September in China.
TRACE has supported artists for over 20 years at all stages in their careers, through mentoring. In 2022 Sian in partnership with Sebah Chaudhry and Haley Morris-Cafiero initiated the inaugural year-long TRACE Mentorship Programme for 24 female-identifying photographers over the age of 35, with generous support from the Genesis Kickstart Fund.
Further iterations of the programme both online and in person are being planned for commencement in late 2025.
Sian is interested in seeing all kinds of work.
Spoken Languages: English.