Zoe Snape is a multidisciplinary artist, working across art, science and mental health to engage audiences with themes of wellbeing and environmental awareness. Transience is central to her work, which examines psychological resilience. She works in painting, digital art, bio art, and assemblage with experimental materials ranging from mycelium, yeast, sea foam and bubbles, to the more traditional mediums of watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil paints. She works between her large studio at the East Quay art centre in Watchet, and her home studio in Minehead. Zoe is a Somerset Art Works member and part of the HATCH collective based in Langport, offering viewers new ways to experience contemporary art in rural environments. She has a BA (Hons) in Fine Art & Art History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has exhibited in Portugal, London, Sheffield and Somerset.
Zoe is the Exhibitions Coordinator at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, and is a specialist in fine art photography, with a fifteen-year-long career working in galleries and auction houses, such as Christie's, Bloomsbury Auctions and The Photographers' Gallery in London. Most recently she completed Artist Residencies at Musgrove Park Hospital and a year-long placement at the laboratory Singer Instruments, for which she received the Somerset Art Works 2024 micro-commission to curate an exhibition of her bio art featuring Petri dish sculptures, window art and photography. These roles demonstrate Zoe’s ability to engage diverse audiences with challenging scientific concepts through optimistic, hopeful work that is experimental, visceral, and therapeutic.
RECENT RESIDENCY:
Artist in Residence
Acorn Ward, Musgrove Gallery, Musgrove Park Hospital, Parkfield Drive, Taunton, TA1 5DA.
January - March 2025.
RESIDENCIES:
Artist In Residence
Singer Instruments, The Lab, Minehead.
Year Residency 2024.
Artist in Residence
Acorn Ward, Musgrove Gallery, Musgrove Park Hospital, Parkfield Drive, Taunton, TA1 5DA.
March 2024.
RECENT EXHIBITION:
Thinking Inside The Box
HATCH, Langport
15th - 30th March 2025
EXHIBITIONS:
Vilomah - Hidden loss and Untold Futures
Casa Almeida, Caminha, Portugal
9th - 12th October 2024
Landscape (Re) View I
The Wall, Musgrove Park Hospital
2nd July - 29th October 2024
Landscape (Re) View II
The Brewhouse Theatre & Art Centre, Taunton
17th September - 3rd October 2024
Bio Art - An Exhibition in a Laboratory
Singer Instruments: The Lab, Minehead
21st September - 6th October 2024
Somerset Arts Weeks
Bio Art Prints, Studio 7, East Quay
21st September - 6th October 2024
Found & Ground
Yeovil Hospital, Higher Kingston, Yeovil, BA21 4AT.
18th March - 2nd July 2024.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:
Found & Ground
Musgrove Gallery, Parkfield Drive, Taunton, TA1 5DA.
10th January - 2nd April 2023
Death & Microwaves
HATCH, Langport
27th October - 12th November 2023
Behind The Scenes
Group Exhibition, Taunton Brewhouse
8th September - 30th October 2023
Contains Art - Celebrating 10 Years
East Quay, Watchet, Somerset
1st - 30th July 2023
In-Between
Open Studios, East Quay, Watchet
6th - 14th May 2023
Group Show
The Titan Arcadia Gallery, The Quay, Coal Orchard, Taunton, TA1 1FB.
April - May 2023
The Last Party In The World
HATCH, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset, 15th April 2023
Sanctuary
Somerset Art Works, Ilminster Arts Centre, 35 East Street, Ilminster, Somerset,
TA19 0AN
1st - 26th November 2022
Sanctuary
Somerset Art Weeks, East Quay, Somerset
24th September - 9th October 2022
Fifty Bees
ACE Arts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB,
9th April -14th May 2022
Somerset Art Exhibition
National Trust, Fyne Court, Bridgwater, TA5 2EQ.
May - June 2021
Miniatures
Fronteer Gallery, 18 Exchange Street, Sheffield, S2 5TS.
2nd - 16th October 2021
Somerset Art Weeks
East Quay, Somerset TA23 0AQ
23rd September - 8th October 2021
ARTIST STATEMENT
I’m a multi-disciplinary artist, exploring painting, bioart and assemblage to provoke emotional engagement with the climate crisis.
Transience is the theme of my art. Stimulating conversations about the nature of control, confinement, freedom, and flow, I ask the viewer to engage emotionally with my artwork, which examines psychological resilience.
My subject matter is bubbles. I make bubble prints and blow paint to illustrate the power of breathing exercises to manage psychological states. More recently I have experimented with natural materials such as sea foam and bioart.
I'm now producing artworks that explore the symbiosis between mycelium and photosynthetic plants, and the environmental sustainability of indigenous fungi in my local environment of Exmoor.
I'm inspired by the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s theory of Spheres, British Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake’s study of Mycorrhiza, and American Marine Biologist Rachel Carson's natural history of the sea.
(Photo by Rod Higginson: Zoe Snape, Performance, The Last Party In The World, HATCH, East Quay, Watchet, Somerset, 15th April 2023)
STUDIO
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