Tracy Dovey
I am an artist living on the edge of The New Forest. Having studied Animation in the 1980's I recently completed an MA in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art and have grounded my practice in my rural life and the lives and stories of people in my family and my community and the wild places that remain. I use folklore, folksong, and old customs and rituals to explore contemporary issues particularly feminism and social economic disparity. Country living can be a strange mix of bounty and hopelessness but when people have access to their own strong and sinuous roots, their own history and stories they have anchorage and hope. I seek the stories that connect us and as an artist I’m thinking of different ways of pinning them up on the metaphorical village hall noticeboard for all to read.
