Abbey Corbin

Abbey Corbin is an artist working with sculpture, photography, video and drawing with a focus on materials and processes. Her practice explores the intersection of art and ecology, often depicting ecosystems and fossils from speculative futures.

Abbey currently lives in Yarm, North Yorkshire, and works between York and Glasgow. She received her Masters in Fine Art Practice from The Glasgow School of Art in 2020 and her BA in Fine Art from Lancaster University in 2018.

'Things that grow in haunted places’ (2023) is a living, growing, transient archive of objects, sounds and digital recordings that maps and measures past, present and future changes to our environment. The work takes inspiration from causes for mutation, transformation and metamorphosis, weaving speculative narratives together to build uncanny ecosystems. With reference to site locations in and around the North East, such as our rugged coastline, rivers and lakes, Seaton Carew sand dunes and the North York Moors, this immersive installation invites you to step into a point in deep time, an infinite space for imagined histories and possible futures, and explore what we might find living, dying and growing there. 'Things that grow...' responds to our climate emergency beyond the anthropocene, measuring the impact of humans, while encouraging the spectator to consider how living creatures could adapt to thrive in their altered environments.

She has taken part in multiple group shows including Strata at New Glasgow Society (2021), A Remix of Damage at Reid Gallery and Expanse at The Pipe Factory (2022), and Patricia Fleming's Art Car Boot Sale (2023) in Glasgow. She is part of the YSI Sculpture Network 2022 and has taught technical and experimental sculpture workshops as an associate lecturer at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA).

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