Fiona Carruthers is a UK-based artist working across sculpture, installation, performance and sound to explore resilience, adaptation and survival.
Her practice is profoundly influenced by experiences of life in vulnerable wetland landscapes where uncertainty is palpable, personal and ever-present. Physical disability and post-traumatic growth, following local flooding, further inform her understanding that precarity, interdependence and adaptation are shared conditions across human and nonhuman life.
Working with found, repurposed and often fragile materials, Carruthers creates precarious situations that require attention. Through encounters with material, scale and space, viewers are invited to slow down and engage more fully with their senses, becoming increasingly aware of themselves as part of the wider web of life.
Carruthers holds an MA in Fine Art (Distinction) from Central Saint Martins and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including through residencies and awards. Her work advances a contemporary sculptural language in which care, mutuality and adaptation function as structural principles, proposing practical strategies for collective survival within uncertain futures.
Apr.26 Story Tellers Artist in Residence. An Arts Council England-funded project celebrating South & East Lincolnshire’s heritage. through cultural activity.
