Venue
Venue Address
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell St, Honiton.
Venue Postcode
EX14 1LX
What3Words
choice.risk.loudly
Directions
From Exeter turn left at the traffic lights on the hight street onto Dowell Street. Gallery is on the right hand side.
Parking
There is a pay and display car park next to the gallery.
Venue Facilities
Artist statement
My creative practice explores my deep concern for complex entanglements of human consumption, cultural traditions and environmental damage by creating juxtapositions that take a slanted, and sometimes challenging view. I invite people to think about how we exist as a part of a living system, and how damage to our environment means damage to ourselves.
Extended Bio
Having spent over 14 years working as a garden designer I returned to focus on my art practice in 2020. I was driven by a new artistic purpose and clarity: to use my creative practice to explore my deep concern for, and raise awareness of, entanglements of human consumption, cultural traditions and environmental damage.
As a younger artist my work journeyed through site specific and context specific work, community work and practice-based PhD research. Returning, I felt an urgency to use my artistic language to have a voice about something I am passionate about, resulting in a more meaningful practice for myself.
Since 2020 I have pursued this new direction with the intention to establish my new artistic identity. I have been exploring the complex relationship between human consumption and the health of the oceans, creating juxtapositions between marine life, tools for consumption and well-known, iconic imagery, taking a slanted, entangled and sometimes humorous view. My intention is to ask people to think about how we exist as a part of a living planetary system and how the environmental damage we create through our traditions and practices means damage to ourselves.
In 2024 this led to my appointment as an artist in residence with English Riviera UNESCO Geopark. I consider myself very much at the beginning of this trajectory and want to establish my practice through greater exposure. My new-found passion for what I am doing is reflected in the sensitive and poetic way I create both delicate and challenging objects, both 2 and 3 dimensional, using found and natural materials, photography and video. It is also vital to me that I make my work in a sustainable way, being conscious of glues and the recyclability of fixings in construction, along with the afterlife of my pieces.
