Lesley Bunch was awarded the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2022 and The London Group Cornelissen Prize in 2023. She has exhibited in the UK, Europe, Asia, and the US, with solo shows ‘Absence : Presence’ in Rome, ‘Shadow Language’ in Seoul, and ‘Cut Two Pieces in Three’ in London.

Group shows include: ‘ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined’, Saatchi Gallery; ‘The John Ruskin Prize 2025’ Trinity Buoy Wharf; ‘50th International Award Exhibition’ San Diego Art Institute; ‘Ten Artists to Watch’ LACDA Los Angeles, ‘Talking Things’ Blyth Gallery Imperial College; ‘Darkness Visible’ APT Gallery; ‘Stillness in Movement’ Bermondsey Project Space; ‘Slow Painting’ Studio KIND; ‘Adrift’ Originalprojects; ‘X’ Contemporary British Painting, NCA Newcastle; ‘Silent Disco 23’ Greystone Industries curated by Graham Crowley; ‘Stand and See’ Wimbledon Space; ‘Prized’ OPO Artspace; ‘ArtWorks Open 22’ Barbican Arts Group Trust; ‘Multitude’ Fondazione Luciana Matalon Milan.

Bunch studied at Goldsmiths’ College and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has a BA in Fine Art & Art History and an MA in Archaeology (Japanese art of the Edo Period).

Her work is held in private collections throughout the UK, US, Italy, Germany and South Korea, and in the Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting.

She is Joint Secretary of Contemporary British Painting and a member of The London Group.