Dr Edwina Fitzpatrick
Title
Research Degrees Coordinator
College
University of the Arts London
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Researcher Research
Biography
Edwina is a London based art activator. She currently works as part of CCW's research team, including PhD supervision. Previously she was an MA Course Leader at Wimbledon and Camberwell College of Arts. She was involved with Creative Transitions, a cross CCW group of artists, researchers and students who aim to develop new models for a sustainable university.Edwina's work explores the living environment. Her artwork involves mutability and change specifically in relation to the Anthropocene. Her art projects explore what happens when 'grey' and 'green' environments intersect, and how human interactions have and are affecting the nature/culture/ecology of a place. They also reflect upon how climate change may affect this delicate balance. Her art projects are created through research and discourse. They celebrate narratives and conversations, and are often deeply informed by the history of a place. They are inclusive through the involvement of local individuals.
Edwina also collaborates with experts across a range of disciplines. To date these have included horticulturalists, biodiversity experts, engineers, architects, perfumers, foresters, and composers.
Edwina completed her AHRC funded collaborative practice based PhD with Glasgow School of Art and the Forestry Commission at Grizedale in 2014. Edwina’s research into the landscape-archive was driven by practice-based experiments, using the strategy of becoming and being lost herself, in order to explore what may be lost.
As forests are both carbon sinks and carbon stores, part of this research is looking at how anxiety about climate change is influencing both artists’, and their audiences’ engagement with sited work, particularly in a woodland context. Her findings were contextualised by international research into sited art projects, which reference the green environment.