‘Throughout her work she has retained a strong sense of wide-eyed curiosity, a romantically boundless enthusiasm for embracing disparate things and experiences, for uniting the disconnected and disregarded, and for finding ways to harness that enthusiasm as the basis for a performative way of making that is uniquely and quirkily hers, and for which photography, and more recently film, have become the prime vehicles and conduits.’
David Chandler July 2013
Sian is available to undertake commissions and residencies both in the UK and abroad. For sales and any further enquiries please contact her here
Resources:
Insights of the absurd Interview with Alasdair Foster for Talking Pictures, Australia 2020
Para-Phrase: Eleonora Agostini & Sian Bonnell Essay for Der Greif online magazine, 2020
How the personal remains political in photography today Journal article by Camilla Brown, Scene Vol 5 (1). pp. 23-35. ISSN 2044-3714UK 2017
The performer emerges in the work of Sian Bonnell Essay by Camilla Brown for Photomonitor, UK 2014
Out of Order Essay by Pavel Buchler for Portfolio Magazine Issue #47, UK 2008
Household Management Essay by Susan Bright for Text + Work, Arts Institute Bournemouth, UK 2007
A Taste of Home Essay by Louise Wolthers for exhibition catalogue for Galerie Image, Denmark 2006
Towards a Polytheistic Relationship to Landscape: Issues for contemporary Art
Paper by Iain Biggs for Journal Landscape Research, Vol. 30, No. 1, 5 – 22, January, UK 2005
High Jinks and Black Jokes: the Art of Sian Bonnell Essay by Mark Haworth-Booth for book from an elsewhere unknown, Ffotogallery, UK 2004
Sian Bonnell: poetic fictions Essay by Mel Gooding for book from an elsewhere unknown, Ffotogallery, UK 2004
Glowing Essay by Camilla Jackson for Portfolio Magazine Issue #40, UK 2004
The Passive Eye Essay by Roy Exley for Contemporary Visual Arts magazine, Edition 56, UK 2003
Larks in the Landscape: Sian Bonnell Essay by Roy Exley for Next Level magazine Edition 1 Vol 2, UK 2003
Interview with Rhonda Wilson For Profifoto magazine, Edition January/February, Germany 2003
Sian Bonnell: A Context Essay by Iain Biggs for exhibition catalogue, Bridport Arts Centre, UK 2001