Fiona Carruthers

Photo by Tom Morley

Fiona Carruthers completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2022 with a distinction. She was awarded a University of the Arts Final Project Award and CSM’s Tension Gallery Art Prize.

Carruthers’ work draws on experiences of living in Lincolnshire where with large areas of land at and below sea level, the threat of climate change is personal, immediate and ever-present. Physical disability and post-traumatic growth, outcomes of surviving local flooding, also lie at the heart of her creative decision-making. ‘From this position, it is easy to see that adapting to survive drives all life forms: human and non-human.’

Often playing with ideas of material significance, uncertainty and transformation, Carruthers’ work embodies an aesthetic that speaks of today’s uncertain political and ecological moment. It requires the viewer to slow down and invites us to think about what it means to be human in relation to the future of humanity, nature and technology.

UKNA Projects:

UKNA Weekend Celebration of Creativity: Lincoln 2023 - ‘Artists in the Now’ Exhibition in collaboration with The MashUP