Zoe Childerley is an artist who works with photography and mixed media. She is a Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton and has a strong record in community projects. Zoe has exhibited nationally and internationally and undertaken numerous commissions and residencies in Italy, California, Colorado, Nepal, Jamaica and across the UK. She is currently studying for a PhD funded by the National Maritime Museum on photography and seafaring.

 

Zoe explores the narrative potential of photography in relation to its abstract capacities, and includes drawing, text, mapping and moving image as part of her practice. She is interested in land and seascape, the concept of wilderness and the search for a primordial connection. Whether in the American desert or along the British coast, she demonstrates a desire to experience the ‘sublime’ with the inexplicable seduction of the abyss. She delves into how "place" is deconstructed, reimagined, and interpreted, particularly within the frameworks of regional and national mythologies, often incorporating walking and exploring unfamiliar terrains and subterranean spaces.

 

Now, living by the English Channel, in sight of the European mainland and the busiest shipping lane in the world, recent work focuses on our position in Britain, as an island and our relationship with the sea as a tool of economic and political power as well as a carrier of collective memory and myth.