Patricia Townsend’s moving image, photography and installation works explore the interface between landscape or natural phenomena and the internal world of the imagination. She has had a number of solo exhibitions, most recently ‘Trees, Trauma and Transformation’ at the Blue Gallery Brantwood, John Ruskin’s former home.

Her moving image work ‘Inner Worlds 1’ was shortlisted for the Ruskin Prize, 2024, and longlisted for the Aesthetica Prize, 2024. This work has been acquired by Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, and the British Academy. It joins her work ‘On the Shores’ in the British Academy’s extensive art collection. Patricia’s blog about ‘On the Shores’ can be seen here.

Patricia completed a PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art for which she interviewed 33 contemporary visual artists about the states of mind they experience whilst making new artworks. The British Library has archived 25 of these interviews and they are now available to researchers.