Chesney’s work examines our complex relationship with nature, by engaging with issues of culture, politics and power. She uses many methods to gather information: visiting archives, utilising open source data, talking to community members and documenting flora and fauna through sound, video and drawing, with the results taking the form of installations, interventions, maps, walks, and creating large scale living sculptures in the landscape.
Some recent works include commissions for the Harewood Biennial (2024) in collaboration with the British Textile Biennial (2023); Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset (2023); HOME, Manchester (2023); Super Slow Way, east Lancashire (2022); and TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, Austria (2021). I was Visiting Artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2021 and awarded a Lucas Artist Fellowship to Montalvo in California, USA (2016-18). I am currently Art and Horticulture artist in residence at Hospitalfield in Scotland.
Works showing courtesy of Women In Print Editions
Chesney’s work examines our complex relationship with nature, by engaging with issues of culture, politics and power. She uses many methods to gather information: visiting archives, utilising open source data, talking to community members and documenting flora and fauna through sound, video and drawing, with the results taking the form of installations, interventions, maps, walks, and creating large scale living sculptures in the landscape.
Some recent works include commissions for the Harewood Biennial (2024) in collaboration with the British Textile Biennial (2023); Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset (2023); HOME, Manchester (2023); Super Slow Way, east Lancashire (2022); and TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien, Austria (2021). I was Visiting Artist at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2021 and awarded a Lucas Artist Fellowship to Montalvo in California, USA (2016-18). I am currently Art and Horticulture artist in residence at Hospitalfield in Scotland.
Works showing courtesy of Women In Print Editions