Biography

Sheelagh Frew Crane is an interdisciplinary artist born in Hull in 1963 who lives and works in Hertfordshire.

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

Artist Statement

My observational approach and work starts with the land, natural materials and place. with a deeper exploration into geology, meteorology, sociology, environmental science, cosmology, visualizing the practice as strata layers with longue durée— that eventually surfaces into the work.

It followed naturally to work with materials with deep histories: metals, rocks (particularly sedimentary, metamorphic, and polymorphic) plant materials and man made object forms, often recognising worked materials 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.