Erin Gallagher
MFA fine art
Goldsmiths University of London
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting / Ceramics
Location: London, United Kingdom
Erin Gallagher
First Name: Erin
Last Name: Gallagher
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting / Ceramics
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Goldsmiths University of London
Course / Program Title: MFA fine art
About
Erin Gallagher is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in London. Her practice spans painting, sculpture, installation and poetry, exploring transformation, memory and the entanglement of human bodies with the natural world. Drawing from personal experience, ecological research and encounters with disturbed landscapes, she is particularly interested in plants as living archives—organisms that bear witness to histories of disturbance, adaptation and change. She recently completed her MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London.
The shapeshifter is a figure of survival, transformation, and possibility. In Garden of Shapeshifters, bodies and plants merge, undergoing continual reconfiguration until the boundaries between flesh and landscape begin to dissolve. Plants entangle and grow from the body, transforming it into living terrain. The plants within these works are ruderal species—plants that thrive on disturbed ground, emerging after fires, along railway embankments and through fissures in concrete. As living archives, they bear witness to disturbance while adapting to its conditions. Shapeshifting becomes a way of imagining survival beyond restoration: not a return to what existed before, but the possibility of becoming otherwise.
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