Siobhan Loates

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, I began moving to countries from an early age. Much of my late childhood was spent in the Middle East and England for boarding school. Living in between cultures and diverse landscapes has heavily influenced my work. I have settled in rural Gloucestershire, UK, where I spend my time in my studio and walking. My artistic practice began as a painter but has gradually moved to photography, print and digital media.
During my recent MA I have developed my practice to explore our human relationship with landscape and technology. I use digital media as my creative source material to interpret the evolving dynamics between our biological and technological surroundings. I like to encourage deliberate glitches within the digital material to act as a metaphor for the disruptions and uncertainties that we face in our current environmental crisis.
I subject these glitched source materials to AI systems - I want to question the role and limitations of AI in deciphering and creating meaning from seemingly nonsensical inputs, similar to how human beings also grapple with making sense out of abstract concepts. My images seek to question the assumed versions of reality that we take for granted and the many confli...

Chelsea College Art - Diploma Art & Design 1993-94
Edinburgh University - MA History of Art 1994-98
Bath Spa University - MA Fine Art 2022-23

The Subrooms, Stroud - Little Art Exhibition 2023
Holborne Museum, Bath. Play the Museum, 12-21st May 2023
Summix, Bath Spa University, Bath. Doing Together, 4th-6th April 2023

Lansdown Gallery Stroud, Gloucs. Journey, 9-14th September 2020