MARION SMYLIE
ARTIST
My interdisciplinary arts practice is concerned with ecology, highlighting loss of biodiversity and interconnectedness. I am fascinated by exploring interspecies relationships and their entanglements.
My practice is often site specific, working in a bio-inclusive way I connect to elements within a place and collaborate with dynamic agents - living materials and systems. My methodology includes fieldwork -connecting with plants, fungi and soil for example-and allowing the materials to guide me in a process of unfolding.
I am particularly interested in the cross-pollination of art and science and how this relationship might be useful in promoting change. Through a lens of curiosity and wonder, I address human relationships within the natural world and question outdated narratives, exploring what might happen when we investigate the ways we can engage with the world in a responsible, respectful and reciprocal way.
BIO
Telling stories is at the heart of my practice. I grew up in Manchester and initially trained in theatre, then went on to study BA Visual Performance at Dartington College of Art in Devon. In the years following, I primarily worked in schools and also as an illustrator, with several titles published by Green Books including Creating A Forest Garden and other titles by Martin Crawford. In 2020 I returned to education to study for a Masters Degree in Fine Art at Arts University Plymouth, graduating with Distinction in September 2022. I am based in west Wales.
Examples of work
Dictum
Halcyon Days
Field Notes
Eating the Archive
Exhibitions and Awards
March 2025 THIS WOMEN"S WORK Group exhibiton Oriel Canfas Cardigan
Nov 2024 OFFERINGS a joint exhibition with Jack Smylie Wild Seagull Gallery Cardigan
Oct 2024 ANNWN Otherworlds Group Exhibition Walden Arts Cardigan
July 2024 HEADROOM Sapphire Blue Collective Exhibition KROWJI Cornwall
Oct 2023 UK Fungus Day Group Exhibition Exeter University Devon
July 2023 Radiance, Rubrics & Rituals: So we are Held Sapphire Blue Collective Exhibition Make Tank Exeter
April 2023 Breaking Convention Conference Group Exhibition Exeter University Devon
Nov 2022 Sprout Sapphire Blue Collective Exhibition Grow Plymouth
Oct 2022 UK Fungus Day Living Systems Institute Exeter University Devon
Sept 2022 CYFEST_14: Ferment Arts & Ecology Festival Dartington Hall Devon
Sept 2022 Matters Arising MA Graduate Show Arts University Plymouth
Feb 2022 Midstream MA Show Arts University Plymouth
Dec/Jan 21/22 Field Notes joint show with Shereon Knowles New Lion Community Brewery/Arts Space Dartington Devon
Sept 2021 Crucible Group exhbition Leadworks Plymouth
Aug 2021 Petri Dish Project Group exhibition TEBBS Contemporary Art Gallery Spitalfields London
Jan 2023 KINSHIP Course - Bursary awarded by advaya / Be the Earth Foundation
Sept 2022 Pro Vice Chancellor Award: Arts University Plymouth
Nov 2021 Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Award Funding research at National Botanic Garden of Wales
April 2021 Green Minds Permaculture Design Project Central Park Plymouth.
Selected for the design team of this successful collaborative project to redesign Zoo Field, previously Plymouth Zoo.
Gallery
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