I am a Gloucestershire-based artist, ex-bookseller, PhD and Walker. I am Collection & Education Manager at the Corinium Museum.
I use a research-based art practice. Through this I have explored my interest in museum and heritage practices, collections, narratives and cultural memory.
In recent years, I have been involved with the Walking the Land artist’s collective and using walking as a way of making work. The move to the Corinium Museum has reawakened a latent interest in archaeology which combined with the walking, landscapes and heritage narratives has steered my work. The challenge of interpreting landscape’s past has led to an evolution in my practice, where I choose the media to suit what the work needs to convey – I have become a ‘jack’ of many media and master of some.
“I perceive small things”, said the artist perceptively, “and the things have a minute inscription”. However, the inscription was very faint, a trace, a hint, a suspicion; it appeared to the artist to be a narrative, a tale, a yarn, which should be told, represented, spun.
“Curiouser & Curiouser”
quoted, perceived, believed, supposed, understood,
the artist.
So
She took small things and boxed them & bagged them & bottled them & pinned them & photographed them & classified them and when she had finished she laid them out and displayed them.
Then
Sometimes she would try and persuade people that they were real and sometimes they were real, but sometimes they were real and unreal at the same time.
“People are amused & bemused”, mused the artist. “They believe & disbelieved consequently trusting and mistrusting”.
“Still Curiouser”
paraphrased, appropriated, misquoted
the artist.