Dr Henrietta Simson

Biography

Henrietta Simson works with a variety of media including painting, sculpture, installation, photographic and digital technology in order to explore the landscape image, its historical and cultural development, and its current possibilities within a digital context framed by ecological crisis. Her work is engaged in a reappraisal of visual and spatial structures in order to move beyond landscape as the ‘de facto’ representational image, towards a sense of landscape as embodied form.
She completed an MA in painting at the Slade in 2007, and then went on to study a practice-related PhD in 2017, which was supervised by Professor Joy Sleeman, Professor Alison Wright and Professor Lisa Milroy RA. Her thesis explored landscape through medieval and early Renaissance visual forms, the materiality of the image, and Renaissance perspective’s role in the history of representational image-making.
She teaches at Camberwell College of Arts in London and is currently researching the spiritual and material implications of caves, mines and wilderness in contemporary and medieval landscapes.