MLitt Fine Art Practice School of Fine Art

Sunny Townsend

(she/her)

I experiment in making, drawing, printing, moving image and installation to consider ecological life and death cycles and issues.

Scotland has its own mini reefs full of weird and wonderful creatures! And I want everyone to get how incredible, but also fragile and few, these special places are now.

I can’t help but weave in elements of maths, data, ecology and worry from my background – as a divemaster on the Great Barrier Reef, studying for a PhD in theoretical ecology at the University of Glasgow, travelling Africa teaching statistics, developing mathematical models for eliminating rabies, coding for a tech startup, and leading Scotland’s peatland restoration data team.

Contact
sunnytownsend@gmail.com
@sunnyelspethtownsend
Works
Prints
Surveys of a maerl bed ecosystem before, during and after trawling (degree show)

Prints

Sea creature rubble

Zinc plate lithograph on paper, 56 x 56 cm, edition 1/2, 2024

Maerl squared

Zinc plate lithograph on Fabriano 5 paper, 69 x 69 cm, unique, 2024

In the whoosh

Experimental drawing made underwater using a lithographic crayon on a zinc plate in a tidal race, printed using a colour blend onto Fabriano 4 paper, 50 x 70 cm, variable edition 1/2, 2024

Maerl's revenge

Zinc plate lithograph, Fabriano 4 paper, 70 x 100 cm, edition 2/3, 2023

Maerl's revenge in the Clyde Sea

Ecological meltdown in the Firth of Clyde

Zinc plate etching, unique, 2024

Surveys of a maerl bed ecosystem before, during and after trawling (degree show)