Tracy Satchwill

My practice imagines alternative systems of belief shaped by feminine ways of knowing, remembering and relating. Through installation, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, film and found materials, I create installations and symbolic objects that imagine alternative systems of belief, where feminine presence is understood as powerful, ecological and enduring rather than absent or forgotten.

Drawing on archaeology, folklore, feminist histories and speculative world-building, I am developing an imagined cosmology centred on the Sacred Mother. My work brings together ritual objects, hybrid forms, relics, shrines and fragmented narratives that suggest traces of a culture shaped by reciprocity, transformation and care. Rather than illustrating existing myths, I build new symbolic languages that invite viewers to experience mystery, contemplation and acts of remembering.

My practice is rooted in analogue, material-led processes, layering clay, plaster, textiles, found objects, paint and natural materials to create surfaces that feel archaeological, embodied and lived. Recent developments in my practice have expanded this approach through sustained material experimentation, allowing me to explore ideas of containment, offerings, relics and devotional objects within an evolving installation practice.

Each work forms part of an interconnected symbolic world, where objects, spaces and rituals invite viewers to imagine how feminine knowledge, ecological relationships and collective memory might be carried into the future.