Anna Clegg
Anna Clegg (b. 1998, London, UK) engages with the circulation and consumption of images mediated through lived experience and popular culture, and explores their role in the construction of memory and subjectivity. Her paintings combine photorealistic figuration, reminiscent of the ubiquitous aesthetics of smartphone photography, with painterly gestures, making them feel at once familiar yet uncannily distanced. Her subject matter spans mundane scenes and interiors to references from fine art and popular culture. The references she selects tend to inhabit a specific cultural niche—“alternative” yet canonical, recognizable enough to have attained commercial success. Hence, Clegg’s work reflects an interest in cultural capital, where recognition and accessibility often outweigh ownership, offering a nuanced view of how culture is consumed and internalized in the digital age.
Works
Anna Clegg, Exterior 1, 2024
oil on canvas
60 × 50 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Interior Scene 2, 2023
oil on wood
16 × 24 cm
Anna Clegg, Untitled, 2022
pencil on paper
17.5 × 25.5 cm
Anna Clegg, Interior 6, 2024
oil on canvas
40 × 30 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Stainless, 2024
Soup Gallery, London, UK
Installation view
Anna Clegg, Interior 11, 2024
oil on canvas
30,5 × 20,3 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Desk with Photos 2, 2024
oil on canvas
20,3 × 30,5 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Study for Burning Spear, 2024
pastel on paper
21 × 30 cm
Anna Clegg, Untitled, 2025
oil on canvas
35 × 45 cm
Anna Clegg, I’m Not That Scared When I Kill In My Dreams, 2024
digital 2-channel video, audio
26 minutes 21 seconds
Anna Clegg, Burning Spear, 2024
oil on canvas
60 × 45 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Stainless, 2024
Soup Gallery, London, UK
Installation view
Anna Clegg, Miu Miu, 2023
soft pastel on paper
17.5 × 25.5cm
Anna Clegg, Desk with Photos 1, 2024
oil on canvas
20,3 × 30,5 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Blonde Redhead, 2024
Painters Painting Paintings
Installation view
Anna Clegg, Interior 8, 2024
oil on canvas
30,5 × 20,3 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Exterior 6, 2024
oil on canvas
75 × 50 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Untitled, 2024
oil on canvas
30 × 35 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Exterior with Falling Pages, 2023
oil and gesso on wood
20 × 27 cm
Anna Clegg, Interior 14, 2024
oil on canvas
50 × 40 cm
Anna Clegg, I’m Not That Scared When I Kill In My Dreams, 2024
digital 2-channel video, audio
26 minutes 21 seconds
Installation View at Triangolo, Cremona, IT
Anna Clegg, Exterior with Falling Pages, 2023
oil and gesso on wood
20 × 27 cm
Anna Clegg, Desk with Photos 1, 2024
oil on canvas
20,3 × 30,5 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg, Exterior 2, 2024
oil on canvas
30 × 25 × 4 cm
Anna Clegg
born 1998 in London, UK
lives and works in London, UK
Education
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2020
Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
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2018
Universität der Künste, Berlin, DE (exchange)
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2017
Foundation Diploma, Kingston University, UK
Solo Exhibitions
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2025
Liste Art Fair Basel, Basel, CH (upcoming)
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2024
Blonde Redhead, Painters Painting Paintings, online
Stainless, Soup Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
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2025
Soft Opening, London, UK (upcoming)
Triangolo at 2 Hoxton St, London, UK -
2024
Ten Thousand Ugly Inkblots, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, DE
Hidden Structures, Triangolo Gallery, Cremona, IT
Fine Tooth Comb, Greatorex Street, London, UK
Dirt In The Eye, Gnossienne Gallery, London, UK -
2023
All The Small Things, Soup Gallery, London, UK
Freeway To A Derby (audio performance), Generation And Display, London, UK
Half Truths, Unit 2 Cassia Building, London, UK
5T41N7355 (Audio/DJ), Double Take, Venue MOT, London, UK
Very Fine Portrait (Audio/DJ), While You’re Online, Spanners, London, UK
Radio Silence, Split Gallery, London, UK
Trees Falling Compilation, Audiovisual performance with Tarzan Kingofthejungle, FOLD, London, UK. Performed as part of One Time Only (Royal College of Art x LUX Moving Image) -
2022
The Worm At The Core, SET Woolwich, London, UK
Not Before It Has Forgotten You (in collaboration with Clémentine Bruno and Beatrice Vorster), Nicoletti, London, UK
I <3 Your Output (with David Musgrave, Beatrice Vorster, Elliot Je"ries), greengrassi, London, UK -
2021
Best Wishes, Oval, London, UK. Curated by Millie Rose Dobree
Audio Mix for Mark Leckey, NTS Radio, London, UK
Audio Mix for ARC Magazine launch event, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Bambi Woods Presents, Space 52/Ergo Collective, Athens, GR and online
Wretched Light Industry in collaboration with Serving The People NYC, US and online -
2020
BA Degree Show (online), Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
Small Rooms 1 (Mail Art Group Show). Organiser and Contributor. A Sight Of, Propositions Studios, London, UK
Six Painters, The Koppel Project, London, UK