Born (1977) and live in London, UK
Graduated from Rose Bruford drama school, BA in European Theatre Arts – 2004
estherbunting@gmail.com
Esther speaks, writes, performs and facilitates around themes of nudity and self acceptance, with feminism and all inclusivity at core.
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Panel Discussion
August 2018 at Mall Galleries, called ‘The Body Beautiful?’ about the significance of physical beauty in art.
Girl in Suitcase performances
Girl in Suitcase – an ever-evolving performance of interactive theatre, dance and life art:
- April 2019 – Roots, Telegraph Hill Festival, London
- March 2018 – Equinox Performance, Telegraph Hill Festival, London
- October 2016 – Panic Sermons, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London
- August 2016 – Fragmented Identities, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice
- April 2016 – Architectures of Identity, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice
- March 2016 – Telegraph Hill Festival, London
- May 2015 – Dandifest, Norwich
- March 2015 – Telegraph Hill Festival, London
- June 2014 – Hampstead School of Art, London
- March 2014 – Telegraph Hill Festival, London
- August 2011 – Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh
- August 2011 – Mascara Bar, London
Spirited Bodies events
Spirited Bodies – a selection of the many events and workshops I have directed:
- March 2020 – women’s workshop about ovarian cancer, at The Wing, London
- November 2019 & February 2020 – workshops with speaking models for adults and students at The Barber Institute of Fine Art, Birmingham
- October 2019 – women’s life modelling workshop with Claire Collison’s ‘Truth is Beauty’ performance, at Metal Peterborough & Metal Liverpool
- September 2019 – body positive life drawing at Minds & Bodies Late, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
- July & August 2019 – REAL LIFE ~ Body Positive Life Drawing for Teenagers, at SPG Youth Centre, Croydon
- July 2019 – Body Positive Life Drawing for Teenagers, in connection with Lee krasner, at Barbican, also Summer Arts Camp at Guildhall School, London
- June 2019 and periodically – Body Narratives with London Drawing at Vaulty Towers, Waterloo
- March 2019 – Truth is Beauty workshop, with Claire Collison at Birmingham Gallery
- February 2019 – The Life Inside The Model, multi-model with speaking at Camberwell College of Art, London
- ongoing women’s sessions – Stories of Women, feminist life drawing – at the Feminist Library, London
- December 2018 – Have I Got Nudes For You, multi-model with news theme at Doodle Bar, Tower Bridge, London
- May 2018 – Stories of Women with Lucy (mixed), at Hampstead School of Art, London
- March 2018 – Truth is Beauty with Claire Collison at Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths University, London
- January 2018 – Good Girls Reveal All, JWT Knightsbridge (with Valentina Rock)
- November 2017 – Women of the World Festival, Horsecross Centre, Perth, Scotland (women only, Aimee presenting then multi-
- model discussion)
- October 2017 – The Mansion, Totnes, Bodykind Festival
- August 2017 – Whitespace, Norloch House, Edinburgh (with All The Young Nudes)
- July 2017 and ongoing – at The Feminist Library, Stories of Women series
- November 2016 – at The Fawcett Society Spirit of Women Changemakers conferences in London and Manchester
- August 2016 – Studio 24, Edinburgh (with All The Young Nudes)
- July 2016 – Lewisham Arthouse, London (sound & movement with life drawing)
- March 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 – Women of the World festival, Southbank, London
(women only, live and recorded interviews) - April 2016 – St John’s Church, London (Loving Bodies charity event)
- December 2015 – Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, London (soundbath event)
- November 2015 – Bargehouse Oxo Wharf, London (soundbath event)
- September 2014 – The Plough and Harrow, Leytonstone, London (interview event)
- June 2014 – Skylight Centre, Highbury, London (interview event)
- November 2013 – Sh! Women’s Erotic Emporium, London (women only)
- October 2013 – St John’s Church, London (with London Drawing)
- August 2013 – Mall Galleries, London
- July 2013 – St Giles Church, Edinburgh
- July 2013 – The Flying Duck, Glasgow (with All The Young Nudes)
- February 2013 – Mall Galleries, London
- October 2012 – Battersea Arts Centre, London (with London Drawing)
- February 2012 – Battersea Arts Centre, London (with London Drawing)
- August 2011 – Mall Galleries, London
- April 2011 – Mall Galleries, London
- November 2010 – Mall Galleries, London
Playwrighting and performance
In addition to Girl in Suitcase, I have written and performed the following plays:
- March 2020 – ‘Growing Roots’, at Candid Art, London
- January 2020 – ‘Growing Roots’, at The Cavendish Arms – LifeArt Stockwell
- March 2019 – ‘Roots’, at Mile End Art Pavillion, part of ‘We Grow into the Forest’
- October 2017 – ‘Carving Our Caves’, at cave Pimlico, Auntie Freeeze festival, London, with Ursula Troche
- September 2009 – ‘Assisting Sara’, Battersea Arts Centre, London, with Rebecca Bunting
- March 2009 – ‘An Ordered Kaosz’, Telegraph Hill Festival, London, with Szilvi Keffert
Acting
Selected acting roles in live theatre:
- October 2008 – ‘Salome’, 2nd Skin Theatre, The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London
- Nov/Dec 2006 – ‘Remembering Rose’, Greenwich Playhouse, London
- November 2005 – ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’, The Landor Theatre, London
Life modelling
Some of the countless venues in which I have modelled – London, unless stated:
- Heatherley’s School of Fine Art
- Mall Galleries
- Hesketh Hubbard
- New English Art Club
- The Pastel Society
- The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- The British Museum
- The Royal Academy of Arts
- The Royal Drawing School
- The Slade School of Fine Art
- University of the Arts
- Byam Shaw
- Camberwell
- Central St Martin’s
- Chelsea
- Wimbledon School of Art