Join us for an in-conversation with London-based artist Anna Perach, and curator, writer and researcher, Ann Coxon, within the framework of Perach's current solo exhibition A Leap of Sympathy at East Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts (12 September – 13 December 2025).
About Ann Coxon
Ann Coxon is a curator, writer and researcher with a long-standing interest and specialism in textile-based practices. For over 20 years she was a curator at Tate Modern where she created numerous temporary exhibitions and collection displays. These included most notably: Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope, 2022; Inherited Threads, 2022; Dorothea Tanning, 2019; Anni Albers, 2018, Beyond Craft, 2017, Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture, 2015; and Saloua Raouda Choucair, 2013. Ann is the author of two books: Motherhood, 2023 and a monograph on the artist Louise Bourgeois, 2010 (both Tate publishing). She has given keynote lectures at the Universities of Cambridge and Leeds and has served as a jury member for ANTEPRIMA x CHAT Contemporary Textile Art Prize, Hong Kong and the International Triennial of Tapestry, Łódź, Poland. She is currently completing a PhD thesis focusing on New Tapestry in Europe from 1960-1979.
About Anna Perach
London-based artist Anna Perach's (b. 1985, Zaporizhzhia) practice explores the dynamic between personal and cultural myths. She is interested in how our private narratives are deeply rooted in ancient folklore and storytelling. Her work interweaves female archetypes into sculptural hybrids in order to examine ideas of identity, gender, and craft.
Perach currently lives and works in London, UK. She holds an MFA in fine art (distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London (2020). Recent institutional solo exhibitions include Holes, Gasworks, London, UK (2024) and The Moon Prophecy, Herzliya Museum of contemporary art, Herzliya, IL (2021). Significant group exhibitions include Antigone: Women in Fibre Art, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK (2023), Shamans, Communicate with the invisible, Mart, Trento, IT (2023), Threads, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2023), Unruly bodies, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2023). Perach was the recipient of the Hopper prize (2023), The Ingram Prize, and the Gilbert Bayes award (both in 2021 ).
