Liberty Quinn

Liberty Quinn is a multi-disciplinary artist based in London. Her work sits on the intersection of art and technology to investigate the breakdowns and shifting space of the Anthropocene. 

In 2019 Liberty graduated with a first class honours from the University of Brighton and received the Breakthrough Award from the Artist’s Collecting Society (ACS) during her time there. Soon after graduating Liberty had her first solo show Magnificent Desolation at Ollie Quinn gallery, Brighton. 

Selected recent exhibitions include Unfolding Traces with Pigeon Park at the RCA Hanger Gallery, Two Fold at Southwark Park Gallery, London, Stack at 67 York Street, London, Pure Class at St John’s on Bethnal Green and Un/Sense at Christie’s, London, which showcased the rising talent of artists based in London. 

Liberty has undertaken two residencies at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire and recently took part in ‘Multiple Layers’ conference with SGC international on the panel of ‘The Pursuit of Print in an Online World’. 

To access the ungraspable expanse of Antarctica I locate myself within Google Earth, only to find the imagery fractured and disrupted by the piecing together of information - investigating the breakup and disruptions in technology at the forefront of climate change. I am trying to access the real time acceleration of the Anthropocene, yet when I view it, it glitches.

A makeup of pixel data that disrupts       

 our orientation.

Within my work I want to bring this fragmented space to the surface and pick apart the concealing and revealing of data, taking it to different methods of display to interrogate questions further. Utilising AV and printed technology to bring the viewer back to the digital source of viewing, I want to communicate a sense of the human layer within geological time.

Recent work takes surveillance capture in an attempt to comprehend the scale at which we view these images and mimic the movement within Google Earth, dragging, zooming in. I also hope to create a kind of recalibration in the space, the work shifting and moving as you navigate yourself around. 

Like the 

reflection 

of an ice sheet glaring back at you in digital space.

This investigation into the constant movement and shifting landscape within the static image capture is not over. Temporalities alter and the hum of activity is present and in flux – technologies break up in time to the ice melting.