making time for play . . .
Shari Baker, aka [floebee], is an artist, researcher, photographer, and educator living and working in the wild and woolly north of England.
She uses time based media – video, light and interactivity – to explore the creative potential in live installation, exhibition and public projection.
Working within community and educational settings she develops projects for virtual and live spaces, while exploring the multi-sensory role of media, and its ability to engage individuals and groups towards inspiring imagination and creativity. The goal? To stimulate inquiry and dialogue.
Born in UK, cultivated across continents, and privvy to a diversity of culture, social influence and sensory stimuli, has deeply shaped her professional, personal and creative interests.
A passion for story making, magic, and imaginative play remains the focus of Shari's experimentation within the medium of creativity, both in her image making and educational practice, she continues to be interested in developing video experiences for performance, installation and online media. Exploring the relationship between filmmaker and viewer, and the possibilities of the medium itself.
While collaborating with sound, video and intercative artists, she examines the creative relationships between digital and analogue communication. Her work combines both the whimsical and the provocative and has been exhibited worldwide.
Shari also delivers creative workshops and short courses using photography, video, animation and other forms of new media. She has extensive experience as a press and editorial journalist, and photographer, in news, leisure, education and the arts, including; sensitive indigenous topics, environmental and cultural tourism, and alternative curriculum.
She continues to explore creative applications in pre-digital photography and experimental techniques. Her images appear in Archipelago Productions, Broome Press, CALM Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, YEP, Outdoor Photographer, Trail Magazine, PLATEFORMAG, and YSE, as well as having prints in public and private collections around the world.
She is also available to create documentation video for artists, festivals and educational organisations
She also twitters and occasionally blogs, and is always interested to get involved in fun and unique creative collaborations.