Paula Doherty is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on interactive and collaborative works using ceramic and performative actions. Working as an exploration into themes of nature and humanity, she considers how these groups intersect, how hierarchy influences the ways we interact with the world around us and how queer theory can alter this understanding. Her work facilitates relationships and communications between more-than-human entities and humans, often manifesting as sculptural objects which can generate a shared action/experience between human and natural entity.
In connection with these alternative systems, Doherty’s practice further aims to disrupt the traditional hierarchy of museum and gallery space; from research based considerations of human response to ‘artefact’ and how our interpretation of past objects impacts our relationships with the natural world, to de-plinthing sculptural works and developing alternative approaches to exhibiting.
