Biography

I draw and paint from life in the field, and make installations based on natural history research. I live in West Norfolk from where I travel to paint throughout the Fens. I have been funded to paint and conduct research in Bulgaria, Black Isle and the Orkney Islands. I hope to awaken a curiosity and intrigue for natural history, which may spark a deeper contemplation and awareness of wildlife and the material culture surrounding it.

As well as developing my practice through installation, sculpture, painting and research, I organised the recent symposium PIDGIN LANGUAGE, Oct 2009. The symposium brought together a wide range disciplines including visual artists, scientist and researches to attempt to discuss animals in art and culture in a multidisciplinary context.

PIDGIN LANGUAGE PANEL:

STEVE BAKER: Author of 'The Postmodern Animal' and Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Central Lancashire
ANDREA ROE: Artist and Lecturer in Sculpture, Edinburgh UK
RIKKE HANSEN: Writer, broadcaster and art critic
PROFESSOR NICKY CLAYTON: Professor of Comparative Cognition, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Clare College, dancer and contemporary dance choreographer
ROSEMARIE McGLDRICK: Artist and senior lecturer at Sir John Cass, London Metropolitan University.
GIOVANNI ALOI: Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, lecturer in Art History and Media Studies QMU and Tate Galleries, London.
HELEN BULLARD: Visual artist

I am currently working as Gallery Coordinator at Greyfriars Art Space, Kings Lynn UK.


'The ocean stretches out; endless body of undulating navy under purple topped hills and low slung cloud. A Great Northern Diver dives, and casts himself immaculate against the concrete of the Scapa Flow Barrier. A silver sky of stars splits across his oil slick back as he resurfaces, snowflake tattoos from his breeding grounds. Around us, roofless stone buildings relax back into the landscape from whence they came: the landscape of the loon.'

(Orkney, Spring 2008)


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