Fi Bailey

I am a Dundee-based artist working mainly with found materials: altered text, drawings on found surfaces, installation, and short film. I’m interested in the roles we play in the care (and control) of recording the human lifespan, from the domestic container for family belongings to the institutional records of our first and last breath. I look for ways of blending real and imaginary spaces, offering a connection between our internal worlds and differing realities.

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My practice has gathered a medical humanities focus over several decades alongside a nursing career, and through various stages of motherhood and illness. My work with historic mental health archives owes a lot to the projects I began on a Creative Writing master’s degree in 2015, and Leith School of Art’s year-long Contemporary Art Practice course in 2019. Since 2020, funding from Creative Scotland and VACMA has given me mentorship and the means to extend those projects.

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Photo: It's Not Supposed To Be Fun (2021) Installation