Artist statement

Wren is a visual artist and an environmental activist at heart.

She works across the arts, bringing her visual aesthetics, movement, photography and art together to create extraordinary moments and spaces. Her practice is deeply reflective and ecological, combining inner and outer landscapes.

Wren predominantly works on a large scale, reflecting her desire to share both the experience of creativity and her work with others. She will invite interaction with a piece through a reflection, a surprise or sense encounter and often through community involvement in the conception and making of artworks.

Wren is fascinated by space, light and colour and the beneficial effects this has upon humans. Her works are often sited in the landscape: suggested routes between them are created to encourage outdoor journeys, and moments of awareness and wonder.

The materials she uses are carefully chosen to do as little damage to the earth as possible, often a combination of waste material or the earth itself.

Artistic background and experience

Wren was born into a large family in Shropshire and brought up on the beautiful and wild Longmynd, by her painter and ceramic artist- educator parents. Here she was steeped in the rural environment, and art, and encouraged in her love of music and dance.

After studying Design BA Hons at Middlesex University, she joined the Greenham Common Peace Camp and was involved in non-violent direct action. In 1989 she cycled across Europe along the major rivers to highlight water pollution for Greenpeace.

Wren is an Environmental Artist, with over twenty years experience working in many ways with people: creating outdoor performances, celebrations, trails, films, sculptures, gardens and eco spaces. These are places in which to reflect on the nature of life and our relationship to the world.

She has also been involved in improving indoor environments and health settings for children and has completed a number of celebrated large scale public art commissions.

In this time she has become an instigator, an ideas person and a developer of initiatives and ways of engaging people in the Arts.