Currently based in the UK, Anna Wallace-Thompson is Head of Proposals EMEA & Global Proposals Editor at Sotheby’s where she manages a team of writers across London, Paris and Hong Kong and collaborates closely with the team in New York. Prior to this, she was at Condé Nast Britain, where she was Deputy Editor of contract publishing, working closely with clients such as Deutsche Bank Wealth Management, Frieze art fair and Swarovski. As an arts writer specialising in Middle Eastern art and culture as well as tech-based artistic practices, Wallace-Thompson previously spent 10 years with Canvas, the premier magazine for Middle Eastern art and culture. She has also had a longstanding partnership with The Journal, produced by the non-profit Atassi Foundation to promote Syrian art and artists worldwide.
Wallace-Thompson also has experience in PR, both within an agency as well as in the capacity of communications director for London-based galleries Kashya Hildebrand and Pi Artworks, and has consulted on media strategy for galleries and produced a wide variety of press and catalogue texts.
She has written for magazines such as Alef, Artforum, Artsy, Art in America, Art Review, The Art Newspaper, Canvas, Contemporary Practices, Frieze, Harper's Bazaar Art Middle East and RA Magazine among others. Book projects cover a wide spectrum, and include contributing profiles to +971: 50 Emirati Creatives Shaping the UAE (Rizzoli, 2025), sub-editing Alcove: Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists (Kaph Books, 2024), co-editing The Art of Cooking: A Contemporary Twist on Georgian Fare (Sotheby’s, 2019) and the editorial creative concept for K11 Musea: A Book of Modern Muses (Condé Nast, 2019).
Something of a global nomad, Wallace-Thompson grew up predominantly between the UAE, Australia and Singapore. She received her BA in English Philology from Helsinki University (2003) and an MA in English Literature from Sydney University (2006).
When she isn’t wrangling proposals into shape or working on freelance editorial projects, Wallace-Thompson is chipping away (at the speed of a snail on a glacier) at her first novel. Her short stories have been published sporadically here and there, including The Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual and the Nowhere Magazine Annual.
*Photograph courtesy Joe Madeira