Jennifer Argo is an artist from the North East of Scotland, based at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. She has a multidisciplinary practice comprised of sculpture, illustration, photography and installation. Her work looks at the natural world and geological time in relation to changing environments.
She is interested in how we can draw inspiration from the natural world for a more sustainable future, creating closed cycles of resource management, more durable structures in the built environment, and stronger, self-sufficient as well as mutually adaptive communities that work together, on local and global basis, as we face global environmental challenges.
Through photography she documents changing environments, focusing on geothermal, ecological, geological, and glaciological areas of scientific interest, as well as sites rich in biodiversity. She creates meticulous hyper-detailed illustrations of geological and botanical formations, capturing the complexity of natural structures. Her sculptures highlight the bare frameworks of dynamic and resilient natural forms, examples of strength and durability, and interdependent systems and communities that support life.
Argo is also an arts educator who hosts workshops with arts organisations, schools, community groups, students and charities, particularly ones who support young people, to develop creative skills, confidence in skill-sharing, and working collectively as part of a group. Her workshops focus on the natural environment, climate change, sculpture, illustration, design, and large-scale live-build installations to create urban sanctuaries and green spaces.
She was recently awarded the JD Ferguson Arts Award Trust Travel Award for a research and documentary trip to sites of geological, botanical, ecological, glaciological and geothermal interest in New Zealand, a commendation award for a sanctuary space in Glasgow from the Glasgow Institute of Architects, and won the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprise, and took part in Pick Me Up Selects at Somerset House in London. She is currently studying Environmental Science in tandem with her creative practice, and is due to undertake a residency at Sculpture Space in the US to create work about local wetland sites once it is safe to travel again.
For more info, to organise a workshop, or request a commission, please email: jennifera@btinternet.com
She is interested in how we can draw inspiration from the natural world for a more sustainable future, creating closed cycles of resource management, more durable structures in the built environment, and stronger, self-sufficient as well as mutually adaptive communities that work together, on local and global basis, as we face global environmental challenges.
Through photography she documents changing environments, focusing on geothermal, ecological, geological, and glaciological areas of scientific interest, as well as sites rich in biodiversity. She creates meticulous hyper-detailed illustrations of geological and botanical formations, capturing the complexity of natural structures. Her sculptures highlight the bare frameworks of dynamic and resilient natural forms, examples of strength and durability, and interdependent systems and communities that support life.
Argo is also an arts educator who hosts workshops with arts organisations, schools, community groups, students and charities, particularly ones who support young people, to develop creative skills, confidence in skill-sharing, and working collectively as part of a group. Her workshops focus on the natural environment, climate change, sculpture, illustration, design, and large-scale live-build installations to create urban sanctuaries and green spaces.
She was recently awarded the JD Ferguson Arts Award Trust Travel Award for a research and documentary trip to sites of geological, botanical, ecological, glaciological and geothermal interest in New Zealand, a commendation award for a sanctuary space in Glasgow from the Glasgow Institute of Architects, and won the Deutsche Bank Award for Creative Enterprise, and took part in Pick Me Up Selects at Somerset House in London. She is currently studying Environmental Science in tandem with her creative practice, and is due to undertake a residency at Sculpture Space in the US to create work about local wetland sites once it is safe to travel again.
For more info, to organise a workshop, or request a commission, please email: jennifera@btinternet.com
