About
Artist Statement
My practice explores feminine power, women's lived experiences and the ways knowledge, autonomy and voice can be suppressed or reclaimed. I am interested in what happens when women are no longer passive subjects within existing stories but become the creators of their own worlds.
As a teenager, whilst reading Brave New World, I recognised an imagined society that exercised immense power to control, oppress and manipulate. I was also fascinated by worldbuilding and by how Aldous Huxley created a world inspired by the technological advancements of his own era.
My practice has recently shifted from separate bodies of work and existing stories towards a framework that I can explore over the coming years. I am developing an imaginary world with hybrid female beings who connect to the land, creatures, and plants. The cosmology is set in a sacred world that begins with the First Foremother, from whom the world’s cycles, rituals, beings and landscapes emerge. This imagined world is rooted in my belief that the Earth is sacred, and that how we care for it is our responsibility.
The work imagines an alternative belief system centred on feminine knowledge, transformation and interconnected life. It enables me to explore how women move through life, looking at ritual, ageing, relationships with our environment and memory.
My research covers goddess worship, the divine feminine, menopause, menstruation, ecofeminism, mythology and folklore.
Working across installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, collage, film and sound, I am increasingly building this world through materials. Ceramics, textiles, paper and found materials allow me to develop its beings, objects and environments through layering, drawing, paint and texture.
At the heart of my work is the belief that women are powerful and highly valued. I question what the world might look like if feminine knowledge, bodies, relationships and ways of relating to the Earth were valued rather than suppressed. Drawing on real histories, bodies, ecological systems, folklore and lived experience, I ask what a different world built from these things might look like.
Bio
Tracy Satchwill is a Norfolk-based contemporary artist working across installation, sculpture, drawing, collage, film and sound. Her practice explores feminine power, women's histories, folklore and feminist mythmaking.
Her work has been exhibited widely across the UK, including solo and duo exhibitions at Time and Tide Museum, Normanby Hall and Anteros Art Foundation, and group exhibitions at Gray Area Gallery, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Guildhall Art Gallery and Royal Holloway University. Her multidisciplinary projects have been commissioned by organisations including North Lincolnshire Museum, National Trust, Wellcome Collection and Ipswich & Colchester Museums.
She has undertaken residencies with Time and Tide Museum, Normanby Hall and North Lincolnshire Museum, and has received Arts Council England DYCP grants in 2021 and 2025. She holds an MA in Communication Design from Norwich University of the Arts and a BA (Hons) in Illustration: Design from the University of Plymouth.