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First Name

Mary

Last Name

Low

Country

United Kingdom

City/Town/Village

Mold

Country (secondary)

Email

marylow333@gmail.com

Statement

As with many people drawing or mark-making started when I was very young as did walking in the countryside. In recent years the two actions of mark-making and walking have converged. I walk over 2000 miles a year, I am obsessed with maps as a means of delineating a 3D space, not just surface maps but geology, hydrology, air pressure, altitude. My current art work endeavours to examine the nature of walking in the landscape as a solitary female. By walking in the open access areas of the Welsh Hills, I hope to deviate from prescribed routes and ways of experiencing the landscape. My ecofeminist perspective also illuminates how language and culture may encourage us to associate landscape and gender in ways often subtle and unconscious.