Caitlin Dick
2023-24
Over the first year, artists Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges worked collaboration with the Barn, initiating, designing and supporting the Far Orchard. It has always the intention for them to take a back seat after the first year and to invite different artists to work with the network. The Far Orchard intends to develop over time not just by adding new trees and hosts but by using creativity as a way to explore and deepen our understanding of the natural world around us. By introducing new artists to the Far Orchard, we aim is for tree hosts to engage with the project in new ways.
Images Grant Anderson
Caitlin is a talented emerging artist from the Aberdeenshire area and will be taking the creative lead on The Far Orchard projects as well as being the voice of the Newsletter for 2023/4. It’s great to welcome Caitlin into the Far Orchard community, she has exciting new ideas to explore and will always be open to ideas from The Far Orchard hosts.
Her practice is inspired by the environment, utilising sculpture, film and printmaking to realise her ideas. She focuses on the intersections between people and the environment, specifically she likes to concentrate on the minuscule, the microscopic and the parts of nature we overlook. Most recently, she has been interested in the role of care through relationships in nature, questions how care can be presented and nurtured. Caitlin graduated from Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen in 2017 and went on to complete a Masters at Edinburgh College of Art in 2018. She is also a beekeeper!
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