Erika Cann
Erika Cann is an artist whose home lies between the granite tors of Dartmoor National Park and the dynamic cliffs of the Jurassic Coast. Her work investigates place through accounts, both historical and contemporary, within the guides and maps of an area. She navigates the environment through climbing - pushing, pulling, jamming and squeezing her way up and through time, geologies and accumulated narratives. The work takes the form of photography, film, and printmaking, which is often imbued with language.
Erika is an advocate for public access to nature, and has recently been awarded a New Perspectives bursary from Campaign for National Parks to use her practice to engage local communities with public transport access to Dartmoor National Park. She hopes to engage local communities with the landscape in a position of care and enjoyment through exploration, which is ecologically considered yet adventurous.
Erika Cann
Erika Cann is an artist whose home lies between the granite tors of Dartmoor National Park and the dynamic cliffs of the Jurassic Coast. Her work investigates place through accounts, both historical and contemporary, within the guides and maps of an area. She navigates the environment through climbing - pushing, pulling, jamming and squeezing her way up and through time, geologies and accumulated narratives. The work takes the form of photography, film, and printmaking, which is often imbued with language.
Erika is an advocate for public access to nature, and has recently been awarded a New Perspectives bursary from Campaign for National Parks to use her practice to engage local communities with public transport access to Dartmoor National Park. She hopes to engage local communities with the landscape in a position of care and enjoyment through exploration, which is ecologically considered yet adventurous.
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Education 2021: BFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford 2018: Foundation Diploma Art, Exeter School of Art Selected Exhibitions Current: the foot sinks into it, The Plough Arts Centre, 15 Jul - 26 Aug 2023: Underland Passages, Art Week Exeter 2023 (Venue 21) : Pseudomorphs of a Crater, Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix : Stone Lane Gardens Summer Exhibition 2022: How Long, CAMP, Plymouth : South West Printmaking Open, Studio KIND, North Devon :The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity, IMPACT12, Centre For Print Research, Bristol :Wiltshire Creative Summer Open, Salisbury : A New Folklore, Fish Factory Arts Space, Penryn : RE: Wild, Maketank, Exeter 2021: Reignite, Creative Youth Network, Bristol : ECO, The Coral Reef Principle, Ursa Gallery, Bridgeport : Final, Not Over - Again, Ruskin School of Art, Unit One Gallery, London 2019: Lower Ground, Prelims Exhibition, Ruskin School of Art : 02: Flux, Group Exhibition, Worcester College, Oxford Online 2022: Erika Cann and Siân Goldby: Towards a geological-artistic practice, commissioned by Eco Art Scotland and The Barn Arts 2021: Resolve, Graduate Showcase, The South West Collective : BFA Degree Show Website, Ruskin School of Art 2020: Issue 01, Black River 2022: Linear, The Dartmoor Collective :Frontpage, Backpage, Centrefold, CAMP :Geographies of Print, Geographies of Print Collective :Ephemeris, Tour De Moon Issue 6 2021: New Graduates, TSDAP : As Yet Untitled, Interim Arts : Ruskin Class of '21, Ruskin School of Art : Scope Creep, Ruskin School of Art Awards and Bursaries 2022: Curatorspace Artist Bursary #17 :Centrefold Award for Frontpage, Backpage, Centrefold, CAMP :Time, Space, Money Bursary, A-N : New Perspectives Bursary, Campaign for National Parks 2021: Graduate Showcase F16 Store Award, The South West Collective, Resolve 2019: Human Anatomy Prize, Ruskin School of Art Workshops and Residencies 2022: New Platform Artists Development Program : Workshop leader of Mapping the Space of The Exchange, for Spike Island at The Exchange 2 2021-22: CAMP, The Exchange 2 : Positive Light Projects, Emerging Artist Studio Bursary : RAMM, Youth Panel Member : The Barn Arts, Becoming Earthly Selected Participant 2021: Visual Arts South West, ‘Youth Artworkers Advisory Group’ Panel Member Projects and Professional Experience 2022: Arts Administrator, Positive Light Projects :Workshop Leader and publication designer, Campaign For National Parks, New Perspectives Bursary :Guest Editor for 'Ephemeris', Moon Press, Tour De Moon 2021: Photographer and Videographer, Arts and Eco Creativity Program, Significant Seams CIC, Devon : Degree Show 2021 Publication Team member, Publication Layout, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford 2020: Creative Director, Worcester College Commemoration Ball, Oxford |
