CV - TRACEY FAHY

Tracey is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the relationship between nature and culture, particularly human-environment interactions. She holds a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography and has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally. Additionally, she’s participated in artist residencies at various institutions and collaborates with non-profit organisations as a workshop facilitator, using photography to empower communities and promote well-being.

After over a decade working as a photographer, Tracey began questioning the environmental impact of image-making and the inherent disconnection associated with screen-based work. This led to gardening as a subject and a form of unplugging; a slower, more embodied way of being and making that invites presence and reciprocity.

Her deepening engagement with horticulture has seen her care for renowned gardens including Chelsea Physic Garden, Chiswick House Kitchen Garden, Trinity Hospice, and an historic garden within the Nanzen-ji monastery compound in Kyoto, Japan. She’s completed artist-gardener residencies at Grizedale Arts (Cumbria), Monet’s Garden (Giverny, France), The Grange Projects (Norfolk), and The Hide (Stroud). She also works as a freelance community gardener with organisations including Battersea Arts Centre and Hammersmith Community Gardens Association.

Her horticultural expertise is underpinned by formal studies with the RHS and specialised training supported by RHS and Merlin Trust bursaries. This includes an intensive course at the Research Centre for Japanese Garden Art & Historic Heritage (Kyoto University of Art & Design) and forest garden design training with Martin Crawford at the Agroforestry Research Trust in Devon. Her report on forest garden design was recognised with The Christopher Brickell Prize in 2023, awarded by the Merlin Trust.

AWARDS | FUNDING | RECOGNITION:
2024 Grants for Visual Artists, The Eaton Fund.
2024 RHS Bursary (artist gardens research).
2024 Thistledown Horticultural Bursary, Tresco Abbey Garden.
2023 The Christopher Brickell Prize, The Merlin Trust.
2021 UK-Study Travel Bursary, The Merlin Trust.
2020 Emergency Response Fund, Arts Council England.
2018 RHS Bursary (attendance at JGHH Seminar, Kyoto University of Art & Design).
2018 International Travel Bursary, The Merlin Trust (as above).
2014 Shortlisted: Jerwood/Photoworks Award 2015.
2014 Shortlisted: FORMAT EXPOSURE Open Call 2015, Derby.
2014 Shortlisted: OPEN14, Brighton Photo Fringe.
2014 Selected: Fresh Faced+Wild Eyed, The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

COMMISSIONS | RESIDENCIES:
2025 Artist-gardener-in-residence, The Hide, Stroud.
2023-24 Artist-gardener-in-residence, The Grange Projects, Norfolk.
2022 Artist-gardener-in-residence, Grizedale Arts, Coniston, Cumbria.
2019 Munn Scholarship, Foundation Claude Monet, Giverny, France.
2008 Stoke Mandeville Hospital (28 permanent artworks). Commissioned by Willis Newson.
2004 Photographer-in-residence Leading the Way, Royal Gloucestershire Hospital.
Commissioned by Willis Newson.
2001 Artist-in-residence Artbridge, London. Commissioned by Paintings in Hospitals.

SOCIALLY ENGAGED PROJECTS:
Current Neighbours Group, Studio Voltaire.
Current Photography Facilitator (freelance, since 2011), Create Arts Ltd.
2023 A Video History of Rectory Gardens, Studio Voltaire in partnership with Spectacle Media
(part of Unearthed: Collective Histories supported by Historic England).
2022 Botany Bay, Chiswick House & Gardens, National Lottery Heritage Fund.
2015-16 Photographer & Educator, Green Candle Dance Company.
2013-14 Irish Voices, Irish in Britain.
2011-12 Irreversible Materiality, Green Candle Dance Company.
2012 Photography Workshop Facilitator, Big Dance Hub Lewisham.
2010-12 Photography Educator, Helen Bamber Foundation.
2008 Culture Collective_Street Genius, LNDSNF_40, London Sinfionietta.
2007 Urban Feasts, Croydon Council.
2007 Inspire! Allchange Arts.
2006 Playing God, Allchange Arts/Sadler’s Wells (Wellcome Trust Pulse Award).
2005 Welcome to our World, Allchange Arts.
2005 Flow, Allchange Arts.
2004 Skindeep, Allchange Arts/Sadler’s Wells (Wellcome Trust Pulse Award).
2001 Talking Pictures, Allchange Arts.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2024 INDEX, The Grange Projects, Norfolk.
2023 Good Things: A Video History of Rectory Gardens, Studio Voltaire, London.
2018 Other, Tate Exchange, London.
2017 Seeing Sound, Humble Arts Foundation.
2016 BanglaHop! Oxford House Gallery, Bethnal Green, London.
2015 Moving Gallery, Greenwich World Cultural Festival, Eltham Palace, London (GDA).
2014 OPEN14 (shortlist), Brighton Photo Fringe, The Regency Townhouse, Brighton.
2014 Fresh Faced + Wild Eyed, The Photographers’ Gallery, London. [Press Release]
2014 Concrete Collective Showcase, National Scientific Library, Tbilisi.
2014 Irish Voices, City Hall, London.
2014 AusZeiten & Räumen, AFF Galerie, Berlin.
2013 RIOT, Doomed Gallery, London.
2014 Never Seeing Nothing, Nursery Gallery, London.
2012 Still Moving, City Hall, London (Siobhan Davies Dance Project for Big Dance).
2012 Irreversible Materiality (solo show), Oxford House Gallery, Bethnal Green, London.
2012 Photography Open Salon, Galerie Huit, Arles, France (projection show).
2011 Moving Gallery Revisited, Greenwich Dances, London (Greenwich Dance Agency).
2010 Moving Gallery, 02 Arena, London (Greenwich Dance Agency for Big Dance).
2010 What is England? Curated by Stuart Pilkington.
2008 JPPS Exhibition, Koto-ku “Bunka” Center, Tokyo, Japan.
2008 AIR, Morley Gallery, London.
2008 Rodchenko Photography Competition (Winner), Hayward Gallery, London.
2005 Welcome to Our World, Byam Shaw Art Gallery, London.
2005 Flow, Byam Shaw Art Gallery, London.
2004 Leading the Way, Royal Gloucestershire Hospital, Gloucester.
2001 Artbridge, Sheridan Russell Gallery, Mayfair, London.
2001 Talking Pictures, Rose Court Residential Care Home, Hackney, London.

EDUCATION:
2012 MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography (Distinction), LCC, UAL, London.
2008 City & Guilds, Artist-in-Residence, Morley College, London.
1993 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Bradford College of Art & Design, W. Yorks.