Judith Tucker


Judith Tucker was born in Bangor, Wales in 1960. She completed a B.A. Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, St Anne's College, Oxford, an M.A. Fine Art,], and a PhD in Fine Art at the University of Leeds. Tucker is co-convenor of LAND2, a research network of artists associated with Higher Education who are concerned with radical approaches to landscape with a particular focus on memory, place and identity. She exhibits regularly in the UK and Europe. Between 2003–2006 Tucker was an AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts.
Of her work she says “My practice explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and landscapes; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and scholarly writing.” Paintings and drawings by Tucker have been exhibited in ‘Landscape During Times of Uncertainty’ at Southampton City Art Gallery, ‘Drawn 2013’, Royal West of England Academy, ‘Shadows Traces Undercurrents’ Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Centre for Art, Minneapolis, USA,, ‘Arts and Geographies’, Musée des Moulages, Lyon, France, ‘Postmemorial Landscapes’, Armory Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Her work has been acquired by New Hall Collection of Women's Art, Cambridge, New College, Oxford, The Priseman Seabrook Collection, St Matthias Kolleg, Germany and Swindon Art Gallery.

Selected group exhibitions

•. Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century Yantai Art Museum, Artall Gallery, Nanjing, Jiangsu Art Gallery, Nanjing and the Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, Tianjin. China
• Anything Goes? Contemporary British Painting: An Exhibition of Works by Members of Contemporary British Painting selected by Anna McNay, Bermondsey Art Project Space, London
• In the Open, Sheffield, SIA Art Space and Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, Curator and exhibitor
• Neverends: art, text and music in place at Muriel Barker Gallery, Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby culmination of 18 month Arts Council funded commission
•. Contemporary British Painting Winter Exhibition, Marylebone, London
•. An intervention to accompany “Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment Université Libre de Bruxelles
• Projectfitties Discovery Centre, Cleethorpes,
• Summer Exhibition of Contemporary British Painting, Quay Arts, Newport Isle of Wight
• Seeing Double: residency and exhibition of open-form poems by Harriet Tarlo and monochrome drawings by Judith Tucker, The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Tower
• Judith Tucker Westminster Art Library, London
Walking Backwards: art between places in twenty-first century Britain in Walking: Landscape and Environment ed David Borthwick Taylor and Francis
Tucker JA and Tarlo HAB ‘Drawing closer’: an ecocritical consideration of collaborative, cross-disciplinary practices of walking, writing, drawing and exhibiting in Extending Ecocriticism: crisis, collaboration and challenges in the environmental humanities. eds Welstead and Barry, MUP
Tucker JA and Tarlo HAB “Off path, counter path”: contemporary collaborations in landscape, art and poetry” Critical Survey, Berghan, p 105-132
Tucker. J. Brooding on Bornholm: postmemory, painting and place in Jones O. and Garde-Hansen, J.
Tucker. J. On the Beach at Bornholm: Journal of Visual Art Practice
2010) Tucker. J. The Lido in the Forest: Painting, Memory and Subjectivity in Memory, Mourning and Landscape: Interdisciplinary Essays, eds.Elizabeth Anderson, Avril Maddrell, Kate McLoughlin and Alana Vincent. Rodopi Press Amsterdam.
Tucker. J. Belated Landscapes: A Second-Generation Aesthetic Practice in a British Context. Journal for the Study of British Cultures
‘Resort: re/visiting, re/visioning, re/placing’, Journal of Visual Art Practice5: 1, pp. 95–106, doi: 10.1386/jvap.5.1.95/1
Tucker. J. Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation in Culture, Creativity and Environment: new environmentalist criticism. eds. Fiona Becket and Terry Gifford, Rodopi Press Amsterdam.
Tucker. J. Painting Places: A Postmemorial ‘Landscape’? Book Chapter in Migratory Aesthetics. eds. Samuel Durrant and Catherine Lord. Rodopi Press Amsterdam

Awards