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Tess Baxter is a video artist and printmaker who blends different technologies and worlds. Her video art is made out of (rather than ‘in’) a digital online world, as she edits it together with Creative Commons and public domain material from other places and times, to make the past and present talk to each other. In turn she has taken her video art into traditional printmaking, to explore the relationship between digital production (and light) and mechanical production (and ink).
Tess has a creative background, having made a living from photography, graphic design, writing and model making. These inform her current practice, along with her personal and academic interest in music, poetry and literature.
Academically she is multidisciplinary, connecting her history with subjects, from a BSc geology (Reading University) and BA sociology (UCLan) to an MA gender, sexuality and culture (Manchester University), and then to her recent practice based PhD in contemporary art (Lancaster University).