Lily Bunney's pointillist paintings creatively merge past textile processes with contemporary digital aesthetics, linking the jacquard loom's binary punched card mechanism to her vibrant art. Using a mix of classic colors and digital influences, her work features trendy subjects and challenges societal taboos. Bunney emphasizes the significance of personal narratives shaped by technology, blending concepts of friendship with a playful recognition of vulgarity. Her artistic process becomes a means of overcoming shame, transforming potentially embarrassing moments into vibrant celebrations of human connection and cultural commentary.
The cells in my paintings can be seen both as pixels and as points in a textiles pattern for knit or crochet.
I'm influenced by the internet and my friends - how we construct and witness our own stories, particularly in relation to technology and contemporary culture.
I also think about shame often; when the idea of making something embarrasses me I push myself to make it.
In the act of making, shame is reclaimed and overpowered into glowing, noisy tributes to companionship as well as - perhaps paradoxically - antisociality.
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