Zoe Childerley is a British artist working with photography, drawing, text, mapping and moving image. Her practice explores the narrative potential of photography in relation to its abstract capacities, incorporating geometry, mathematics and empirical visual language to allude to human endeavours to comprehend our place in the natural world. She is interested in land and seascape, the concept of wilderness and the search for a primordial connection, delving into how "place" is deconstructed, reimagined and interpreted, particularly within the frameworks of regional and national mythologies.

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Whether in the Mojave Desert or along the British coast, Childerley's work is driven by a desire to experience the sublime and the inexplicable seduction of the abyss. Now living by the English Channel, in sight of the European mainland and the busiest shipping lane in the world, her recent work focuses on Britain's position as an island nation — examining our relationship with the sea as a tool of economic and political power and as a carrier of collective memory and myth. This inquiry forms the basis of her current PhD research into photography and life at sea for contemporary seafarers, funded through the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

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Childerley is a Lecturer in Photography at the University of Brighton and has a strong record in community projects. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and undertaken residencies in Italy, California, Colorado, Nepal, Jamaica and across the UK.