My environmental art practice
has developed through my experiences living, studying and working in locations
as diverse as Beirut, Chile, China, Zambia and the Scottish Countryside.
At the heart of my work is
the engagement and participation of those communities amongst whom I live. As a
primary source of information and guidance, I rely on evolving relationships
and subtle collaborations to arrive at a work that not only tells a story but
also characterises the community that tells and retells that story.
Through ongoing research,
ideas of physical endurance and environmental sustainability continually
surface as partner concepts that inspire and drive me. As I choose to undertake
the performative element in the majority of my own works, I have inescapably
come to address the notion of female fragility; a relatively modern myth.
Consequently, the live performances to audience and camera, which have formed
the body of my work over recent years, have been described by others as having
a ”mythic quality”. I welcome this description.
Subsequent video
installations and text bear witness to the temporal nature of my work; but
myths and narratives evolve, grow, are embellished and edited by the
communities for whom these myths are a work in progress.
