My sculptural practice playfully explores the relationship between bodies and geologies, drawing on my experience as a rock climber. From stories gathered in the landscape, I create speculative environments that imagine what the deep-time future might look and feel like. I use folkloric narrative as a vehicle for interpreting concepts that are slippery and vast - as a way of visualising timescales way beyond our own, and the reshaping of the ground deep beneath our feet. Ideas knot and materials loop throughout the work, reminding us of our entangled connection to cycles and processes of the landscape, and exploring the tensions that arise from living in this geological era.
My embodied research informs ideas spanning from future fossils to the fluidity of geological timescales. Man-made materials leftover from the outdoors industry are used to playfully reframe what is considered as geology and how we navigate ourselves in a time which is reshaping the strata beneath our feet. Old fragments of climbing wall act as futuristic rock formations, tents become standing stones marking excavation sites, and paracord weaves a new strata to hold the fossils of our time.
Beyond this I am interested in developing artist-led opportunities in the South West, and have established a window gallery and test space in Exeter for emerging artists titled Traction Project Space. I am a member of the 2025/26 cohort of Day School in Bristol.
Instagram: @erikac_art
My embodied research informs ideas spanning from future fossils to the fluidity of geological timescales. Man-made materials leftover from the outdoors industry are used to playfully reframe what is considered as geology and how we navigate ourselves in a time which is reshaping the strata beneath our feet. Old fragments of climbing wall act as futuristic rock formations, tents become standing stones marking excavation sites, and paracord weaves a new strata to hold the fossils of our time.
Beyond this I am interested in developing artist-led opportunities in the South West, and have established a window gallery and test space in Exeter for emerging artists titled Traction Project Space. I am a member of the 2025/26 cohort of Day School in Bristol.
Instagram: @erikac_art
Education
2025-26: Day School, Bristol
2021: BFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
2018: Foundation Diploma Art, Exeter School of Art
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Core Sample, Centrespace, Bristol
2025
Works In Progress, Day School, St Annes House, Bristol
The Self, In Situ, Riva Studios, Hackney, London
Where Are We Now?, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
Being, in touch, Traction Project Space, Exeter (trio)
Shifting Sites | New Ground, Art Week Exeter (duo)
The Devil's Helix, Platform Gallery, Exeter Phoenix (solo)
2024
Technofossils: Traces of the Deep Future, Projection Room, Paignton (solo)
Interconnected, Kennaway House
Through Line, Maltings Taphouse Gallery, Newton Abbot
Out With The Old, In With The New, Studio KIND, Barnstaple
2023
the foot sinks into it, The Plough Arts Centre (trio)
Underland Passages, Art Week Exeter 2023 (duo)
Pseudomorphs of a Crater, Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix (solo)
Shaping Objects, Alma Artspace, Newquay
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
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
Awards and Bursaries
2025: Shortlisted for the Zealous: Amplify Future Award
2024: Mentoring and Bursary awards, Creative Leadership program, Plymouth Culture
2023: PITCH bursary, CAMP
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
2026: CMR Project Space Residency
2025: After School Workshops Program with Harbour House, Kingsbridge
2024: Residency at The Projection Room with Wide Open, Paignton
: Creative Roaming walking workshops with Exeter Phoenix (2023-2024)
2023: Future Fossils: imaginations through cameraless photography, workshop at Celebrate Start Bay with Harbour House, Kingsbridge
2022: New Platform Artists Development Program participant
: Workshop leader of Mapping the Space of The Exchange, for Spike Island at The Exchange 2
2021-22: CAMP, The Exchange 2 participant
: 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
Curator of Traction Project Space
Freelance Technician and art handler
Exhibitions Coordinator, Exeter Phoenix (2025-present)
Marketing Lead, Studio KIND (2025-present)
Editor of Creative Hub, Exeter Phoenix (2023-present)
Steering Group Member, Visual Arts South West (2022-present)
Arts Administrator, Positive Light Projects (2022-present)
2025-26: Day School, Bristol
2021: BFA Fine Art, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
2018: Foundation Diploma Art, Exeter School of Art
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Core Sample, Centrespace, Bristol
2025
Works In Progress, Day School, St Annes House, Bristol
The Self, In Situ, Riva Studios, Hackney, London
Where Are We Now?, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
Being, in touch, Traction Project Space, Exeter (trio)
Shifting Sites | New Ground, Art Week Exeter (duo)
The Devil's Helix, Platform Gallery, Exeter Phoenix (solo)
2024
Technofossils: Traces of the Deep Future, Projection Room, Paignton (solo)
Interconnected, Kennaway House
Through Line, Maltings Taphouse Gallery, Newton Abbot
Out With The Old, In With The New, Studio KIND, Barnstaple
2023
the foot sinks into it, The Plough Arts Centre (trio)
Underland Passages, Art Week Exeter 2023 (duo)
Pseudomorphs of a Crater, Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix (solo)
Shaping Objects, Alma Artspace, Newquay
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
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
Awards and Bursaries
2025: Shortlisted for the Zealous: Amplify Future Award
2024: Mentoring and Bursary awards, Creative Leadership program, Plymouth Culture
2023: PITCH bursary, CAMP
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
2026: CMR Project Space Residency
2025: After School Workshops Program with Harbour House, Kingsbridge
2024: Residency at The Projection Room with Wide Open, Paignton
: Creative Roaming walking workshops with Exeter Phoenix (2023-2024)
2023: Future Fossils: imaginations through cameraless photography, workshop at Celebrate Start Bay with Harbour House, Kingsbridge
2022: New Platform Artists Development Program participant
: Workshop leader of Mapping the Space of The Exchange, for Spike Island at The Exchange 2
2021-22: CAMP, The Exchange 2 participant
: 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
Curator of Traction Project Space
Freelance Technician and art handler
Exhibitions Coordinator, Exeter Phoenix (2025-present)
Marketing Lead, Studio KIND (2025-present)
Editor of Creative Hub, Exeter Phoenix (2023-present)
Steering Group Member, Visual Arts South West (2022-present)
Arts Administrator, Positive Light Projects (2022-present)
