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Ode to Erin is from a series of hand cast paper reliefs which draws on meteorological imagery of hurricanes; an act of remembrance for the passing of these fleeting yet continual phenomena. Each cast traces the turbulence of the eyewall alongside the calm inner eye of the cyclone, preserving them for posterity in the fragile medium of paper.

Church’s background in anthropology and material culture informs her approach to researching the work, combined with postgraduate studies in ceramics which lend an investigative approach to working with different materials. These can be as diverse as cast and watermarked paper, meteorite shavings, textiles, found objects and charred wood. Her most recent collection of works examines the liminal space between humanity and natural phenomena, where one coalesces with the other. In each of the works, a kind of metamorphosis has taken place, with a manmade object or form having undergone a process of transformation. With multiple layers of reference, the works explore a transitory state between nature and object, material and immaterial.

Royal College of Art, MA with distinction; SOAS, MA Chinese Art History; British Museum, Asian Art Diploma (Distinction); Durham University, BA Anthropology & Psychology.

April 2023: Undertow, Unit 1 Gallery, London;     November 2022: Luxembourg Art Week with Montoro 12 Gallery

June-August 2022: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, London

May-July 2022: Royal Hibernian Gallery Annual, Dublin

T.I.N.A Roma prize, 2016

T.I.N.A Chicago prize, 2016

Shortlisted for the Arte Laguna Prize, 2015

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