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Judith Tucker

Holmfirth
Judith Tucker is an artist and academic whose work explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and geography; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and scholarly wri
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My practice explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and landscapes; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and scholarly writing. The focus is to investigate how painting and ‘landscape’ might interrelate, how one can be the interface for the other, and what possibilities there are in the space that is created at this interface. I consider my re-presentations of ‘landscape’ in relation to Marianne Hirsch’s writing on postmemory, Karen Till‘s notions of spectral traces and Iain Biggs‘ work on deep mapping. There are several strands to my practice, all engage with place, landscape and environment. I have worked for the last twenty years in a site responsive way in extended research projects that

  • address issues of relevance to contemporary, post-industrial Britain and Europe including memory, migration, inherited trauma
  • explore macro-environmental issues through micro-places addressing ecological concerns such as, sustainability and energy politics. 
  • is collaborative and cross-disciplinary involving practice across image and text, itself a subject of my research.

The relationship of people, place and memory are key for my recent collaboration with the  poet Harriet Tarlo. One of our current projects works with a contested coastal community on one of the U.K.’s last existing plotlands. During our work here we have seen environmental, political and economic changes and responded to these through our cross- disciplinary creative practice, ecocritical research and work with local people.

 

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