Anna Wallace-Thompson is a publishing and communications professional whose career bridges art, media and strategy. Currently Head of Proposals EMEA & Global Proposals Editor at Sotheby’s London, she manages a team of writers across Europe and Hong Kong and New York, developing compelling narratives for major business opportunities and collaborating with the auction house’s specialists, marketers and client teams worldwide.
Before joining Sotheby’s, Anna was Deputy Editor of Condé Nast Britain’s contract publishing division, working closely with clients such as Deutsche Bank Wealth Management, Frieze art fair and Swarovski. She previously spent a decade with Canvas, the leading magazine for art and culture in the Middle East. She was also founding editor of The Journal, produced by the non-profit Atassi Foundation to promote Syrian art and cultural scholarship.
Alongside her editorial leadership, Anna has worked as a communications specialist for galleries in London, including Kashya Hildebrand and Pi Artworks, developing media strategies, authoring catalogue essays and leading press campaigns.
Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Artsy, Art in America, Art Review, The Art Newspaper, Frieze, Harper's Bazaar Art and RA Magazine among others. She has contributed to and edited numerous book projects, including +971: 50 Emirati Creatives Shaping the UAE (Rizzoli, 2025), Alcove: Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists (Kaph Books, 2024), The Art of Cooking: A Contemporary Twist on Georgian Fare (Sotheby’s, 2019) and K11 Musea: A Book of Modern Muses (Condé Nast, 2019).
With a career spanning Sydney, Dubai, New York and London, Anna brings a global perspective to storytelling and audience engagement, connecting creative vision with institutional purpose. She holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Sydney and a BA in English Philology from University of Helsinki.
When she isn’t wrangling proposals into shape or editing art books, she’s 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