Born in Scarborough, England
Lives and works in Southend-on-Sea
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Part of the 2022-24 cohort for TOMA (The Other MA), an alternative education programme.
Artist and arts facilitator, passionate about community arts. Director of theblokhouse studio, a contemporary art studio and project space in the heart of Southend.
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Fern works across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, and performance. Collaboration and audience participation is an important element to her work, providing more opportunities for dialogue. Current lines of investigation include fictional female sea monsters; mutated creatures, tangled with ocean plastic, exploring ideas based on The Monstrous Feminine, by Barbara Creed, and environmental impact with perceived genders of the deep.
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