Tracey Tregidga is a multi disciplinary artist exploring our embodiment from an interior perspective, working in sculpture, drawing, and painting.
Initiated by the internal impulses of sensation, bodily felt sense, and psyche; imagery emerges through the ritual making of sketchbook pages and drawings, as a form of bodily active imagination. The gestural marks, stains and blots that emerge through this process create a language resonating just beyond conscious control, that inform the making of objects that carry something of this ‘beyond’ into concrete reality.
Grounded in process led materiality, Tracey’s approach to making continues to be influenced by her original training in metalwork and jewellery. Combined with a poetic sensibility towards material choices and a visceral connection to materials through the physicality of working processes, subtle layers of meaning weave back and forth between image led association and metaphor embedded in the manipulation of materials.
This way of working creates quiet objects that occupy space lightly, with an otherworldly edge inviting a subtle shift in perception away from seen reality towards contemplation and sensed awareness.
Background
Tracey originally trained in Metalwork and Jewellery, completing her BA at Loughborough College of Art, and then her MA at the Royal College of Art. While studying for her MA her work transitioned to a sculptural practice focused on adornment, which evolved into a fine art practice in the years that followed her graduation.
Alongside her artistic practice, Tracey also established roles as a college lecturer in art and design and lecturer in critical and theoretical studies. In 2016, she co-founded Micklethwaite Studios in Driffield, East Yorkshire, with Alan Micklethwaite. From these studios they work together on stone and letter carving commissions and separately on their individual sculptural and artistic practices. The studios accommodate their individual and shared studios, a teaching space where they host regular stone carving courses, and a display space where they regularly show work made in their studios.
