Biography

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

Her practice weaves together ecological soundscape, poetry, film, and natural light, 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 carefully chosen 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 in my work.

I am is drawn to materials with ancient histories: metals, natural stones (particularly sedimentary, metamorphic, and polymorphic rocks), occasionally industrial plastics, and organic 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.

This material calling and slow time gives me a window to explore fragility, strength, resilience and place. the work reveals stages of erosion and slow entropy, making visible the patient work of matter.