Janette Porter is an Environmental Artist based in Liverpool UK.
Janette has worked with many community groups across the country developing projects and implementing environmental workshops with respect to the communities open spaces. She works sensitively with the differing groups, responding to their particular concerns and needs. Janette is a keen community collaborator who aims to develop trusting relationships within the working groups. As with her own work, the ongoing ‘process’ of the project is as important as the finished piece.
"My art process weaves my ideas into the fabric of the community; the work relies on collaboration, as often there are many stages and complexity to the ideas we work on. The process relies upon experts in other fields such as scientists, landscape architects, farmers and ecologists. I aim to preserve cultural diversity through my work, to reinterpret native rituals and traditions through the context of environmental art and to rekindle the beliefs that once fostered respect for the environment. I am concerned with reconnecting people to nature and also to the prehistory of their locality."
Academic Background
2001 - 2003
PGCE Liverpool Hope University
1996 - 1997
MA Art as Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University
1988 - 1992
BA (Hons) Fine Art & Sociology, Liverpool Hope University
Current Work
Residency - Kultivator Olsen, Sweden,
Residency - Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn, littoral Kendal, UK
Project artist Crass Rootes & Transition Town Wirral, in collaboration with The Big Issue in The North
Project artist Gaia Project, High Tide: Mersey 2059, Liverpool
Group exhibition/debate - Gaia Project/L@tE, FACT, Liverpool
Developing collaborative projects, Kultivator & Littoral & Liverpool University Sound Dept
Blossom to Pie, spring -winter 09, Project artist & Film maker
