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Mary Hooper

Hastings
Artist using sound for public realm site-specific online and terrestrial artwork installations. I compose complex soundworks combining my recordings of oral history, field recording and research.
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I am an artist working predominately with sound on projects and commissions that enage with the social and environmental status of our collective experiance, both historically and now. I use different materials and processes tailored to a specific situation or environment to create work collaborating with communities, creatives from different disciplines, scientists and historians. I use my research into the narratives of place, people, the patina of human occupation, and the geographical impact of the location on the way we live to create soundworks and installations.
I work to commission and develop self-initiated projects developing ideas through research and working with partners and groups in the community to generate the content and material for the artwork.
My driving inspiration is ‘Sense of Place’ and how this develops over time. Using material that I record, draw, and research using contemporary sources and historical archives.
I incorporate symbols, text, spoken words, and recorded sounds to create an environment, virtual and terrestrial, that provides a setting where we can interpret and distill different elements into a representation of a moment or situation that can provoke or inspire.
I also work as an artist and consultant for Arts in Healthcare, and I am founder member of Radiator Arts, a Community Arts Company based in Hastings.
I have been commissioned to make work for Hospitals, Gallery and Museum exhibitions, and created installations and performances in the South East, Southport, Leeds, Hull, Bridport, Harwich, Deptford and Eastbourne.

 

 

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