Fiona Carruthers

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Fiona Carruthers works across installation, sculpture, video, sound and performance. Often playing with ideas of material significance, scale, uncertainty and transformation, she invites us to think about what it means to be posthuman. Underpinning her ideas is an understanding that adapting to survive drives all life forms.

Carruthers’ work is typically transient and presented as evolving iterations: on-the- point-of-collapse installations using found and recycled materials, everyday ephemera, elements of nature and the in-between sites in our surroundings that are unseen and overlooked. Regardless of their aesthetics, the significance of these elements is their wider invisibility and potential to point to the need for political and social transformation.

In Carruthers’ precarious constructions, all elements and materials, including viewers’ amended behaviour, have a role to play in the works’ function and existence. Mutuality and inclusivity, in the broadest sense, are revealed: community emerges from the assemblage of human and nonhuman.

Carruthers was awarded an MA in Fine Art with distinction from Central Saint Martins in 2022. She also received a University of the Arts Final Project Award and Central Saint Martin’s Tension Gallery Art Prize (2022).

Recent residencies include an AA2A Artist Residency, Loughborough University (2022/23) and Sustainability and Environment Residency, The Collection Museum of Art and Archeology, Lincoln (2021). She was awarded a Develop Your Creative Practice Grant from the Arts Council England (2021) and won Lincolnshire’s annual ArtEscape Trust Award (2019).

Selected group exhibitions include Bookmark, a pop-up intervention at the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool (2022) and Merch, Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross, London (2022). Recent solo exhibitions include, Below the Radar, North Sea Observatory, Lincolnshire (2022). Forthcoming exhibitions include Points of Return, The Umbrella Arts Center, Concord, Massachusetts (202)3.