Biography

Sheelagh Frew Crane is a multidisciplinary artist born in Hull in 1963 who lives and works in Hertfordshire.

Her practice includes ecological soundscape, poetry, film, exploring themes of impermanence, transience, nature, and mysticism through found materials and transformative space, experiences and time.

Artist Statement

Spiritual elements are made present through symbolism, form, materials, and contextual placement. My interdisciplinary approach crosses over into geology, meteorology, psychology, sociology, environmental science, soundscape ecology and cosmology. I visualizes my research and practice as strata layers with longue durée— that eventually surfaces into the work.

I am is drawn to materials with deep histories: metals, natural stones (particularly sedimentary, metamorphic, and polymorphic rocks), occasionally industrial plastics, and plant materials including wood, seeds, twigs, and leaves. In objects, unusual forms are recognised where original identity has become obscured with time, I see these pieces as meditation objects, still beings, portals, or hyper-objects that create bridges to unknown worlds.

Slow time gives me a window to explore materials, fragility, strength, resilience and place, revealing stages of erosion and slow entropy, making visible the patient work of matter.