About the artist

 

Isabella Martin is a visual artist who works with people and places, exploring how we fit in the world and how we shape and are shaped by our surroundings. 

 

Her practice works with both embodied experience and scientific knowledge, challenging perceptions of time and space and offering new perspectives on our biology and our environment. 

 

Works move across mediums and her work is context specific, driven by collaboration, material play and in-depth research. Her collaborations vary from physicists and biologists to sailors and schoolchildren, and inform a playful and experimental working process. 

 

Recent and ongoing projects focus on the body’s internal clock, urban climate futures and oceanic rhythms. She lives and works between Denmark and England. 

 

New Forest Time

 

In residence, Isabella will continue her ongoing interest in place-specific time, mapping the local rhythms and temporalities of the Forest.

 

Starting with the question ‘What time is it in the Forest?’ Isabella will be working in collaboration with local communities to develop experimental clocks that explore experiences of time in the New Forest.

 

The science of circadian rhythms reveals how our bodies keep time in rhythm with our environment. This inspires an interest in the specific rhythms of our environment, and how we can connect biological and ecological temporalities. How can we entangle our rhythms with those of the forest? And what can we learn from forest time?