Imogen Ashwin graduated in 2001 with a First Class honours degree in Fine Art, and completed an MA in Fine Art in 2002. Her experience since then as an arts practitioner and facilitator is outlined in her CV and artist's statement.
Imogen's own work is primarily expressed through mixed media installation, often employing photography, video and object making. She has always been fascinated by resonant places in the landscape and the interface between humans and nature, so her work constantly explores these themes.
Trevor Ashwin is a keen photographer, and is also active as an artist. At present he is using digital collage techniques and cartography - both key 'tools of his trade' as an archaeologist and illustrator - to explore familiar landscapes in a more subjective way than he once did as a field archaeologist.
Imogen is currently making work in response to Festial, a year-long, Arts Council funded residency in a largely unrestored medieval church in the village of Wood Dalling, three miles from her home. This project explored the extent to which it is possible to share in, empathise with and 'inhabit' the medieval world, from our contemporary standpoint. Read more about Festial.
Alongside its members' own practice, World Tree can offer:
- Workshops for all ages. Imogen has devised workshops for primary schools on diverse themes, often combining text with collage, reprographic/photographic/moving image techniques and traditional media. World Tree can deliver themed workshops, lectures or seminars on an expanding range of topics linked to its areas of specialism.
- Art tuition. One-to-one or group coaching to allow candidates to realise their full potential at GCSE, A-Level or for Further/Higher Education application portfolios. World Tree specialises in working with Sixth Form students specifically to bridge the gap between A-Level and degree-level study, both by means of constructive individual tutorials and through initiating critiques and debate. Imogen is passionate about the role of contemporary art but also has a great interest in the history and theory of art which feeds into her work with all age groups.
- Arts commissions. World Tree is happy to discuss individual commissions of all kinds.
- Consultancy. Research, advice - or just a 'fresh eye'.
To view a selection of Imogen and Trevor's work - some of it available to buy - please visit our online gallery.
