making time for play . . .
Shari Baker, aka [floebee], is a designer, photographer, video-artist and educator living and working in the wild and woolly north of England.
Born in UK, cultivated across continents, lived, worked, traveled and experienced a diversity of culture, influence and sensory stimuli further shaping her professional, personal and creative interests.
A passion for story making, magic, and imaginative play has been the main focus of Shari's experimentation with the medium of creativity, in her image making and educational practice.
She develops 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 and video artists, she examines the creative relationships between digital and analogue communication through time based mediums. 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 for 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.