Featured MFA: Suzie Cochrane
We are excited to present our next featured MFA working with expended media art: Suzie Cochrane!!!!
Suzie was awarded a BFA degree with Distinction from the University of Lethbridge in 2000 and in 2008, she moved to Nova Scotia where she is now a resident in Greenwich. Her practice focuses mainly on using analog technology to create mostly small, playful, interactive objects to engage people in conversation and stimulate interest in the beauties of science, mathematics and technology.
If you want to know more about Suzies practice and her work check out this Blog or her Instagram @Iaslothmagicallyappears
Due to the pandemic Suzie is working in her studio in Greenwich, Nova Scotia. We asked her to tell us more about her studio practice!
As an autistic person with dyscalculia, I have engaged in a lifelong love/hate relationship with mathematics. An obsession with patterns, either natural or manmade, drives her to explore (sometimes painfully) mathematical systems, despite a profound innumeracy. Ongoing mathematics upgrading is her solution to this issue, and it is going slowly but steadily so far.
One is never too old to conquer or at least attack educational barriers, and this need I have to learn and create throughout life is something I want to help others explore for themselves as well. By using interactive art as a catalyst, I hope to inspire others to seek out their own creativity in an ongoing cycle of (self) discovery and connection.
Do you keep a special object in your studio?
My whole house is my studio at the moment, and there are lots of special objects within it! If pressed, I would say a trio of battery-operated candles provides me with a soft, flicking light that warms my space and offers a forgiving semi-darkness for when I have to attend Teams or Zoom meetings.