Deborah’s practice considers uncertainty and flux between process and outcome, material behaviours, processes, and sculptural assemblage as modes of making to test set categories of art disciplines and their associated material form. Networks, adaptation and connectives are structural devices in this practice, which are inspired by such things as the study of plant structures, energy conductive systems, the growth patterns of physical phenomema and futuristic transformative human imaginings. Deborah has had a career in art education in university education ( University of Leeds)is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, a member of thethe Yorkshire Sculptors Group and LAND2 (Practice led research network). She exhibits nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, cemeteries, sculpture parks and industrial regeneration sites.
Most recent work explores the potential in repurposed materials, such as electrical waste to explore the generative power of repurposing materials to create new meaning. Residencies, projects and exhibitions in the past couple of years include: ‘The Nature of Things’, Saltsmill, Saltaire, ‘Here, Now and Then’, The Civic Barnsley, ‘Sculpture in the Gardnen’, Helmsley Walled Gardens, North Yorkshire, ‘Paint Thing’ Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University, Trélex Artist Residency, Switzerland, ‘Plant Power’, GroundWork Gallery, Kings Lynn, ‘In the thick of things’ installation project, APT gallery, London, ‘Threads of Resilience’, Dalgart Artists Residency, Dâlga, Romania,
(a contemporary)Phantasmagoria, Tension Fine Art Gallery, London. She is currently collaborating in a pilot research project ‘Re-enchantment: The legacy of folklore in future imaginings’ which explores future imaginings of magic making, witchcraft and ritualism Network for Time ( University of Leeds).