Quin de la Mer
When Women Write Their Pain, installation, sticker, 2022.
Corbridge, part of Action Art for a Dying World, black/white sustainable photography, 2022.
Spirit of Los Angeles, digital photography of the devastating climate change event wildfire, digital art composition with supermodel promoting mask wearing during the Covid pandemic, 2020-2022.
At Death We Forage, digital photography on location in San Francisco during the start of the Covid pandemic, digital art composition, 2020.
Barmouth, Wales, part of Action Art for a Dying World, cyanotype prints on paper, (48) 10x10", 2022.
Conversation with Covid-19, drawing, alternative photographic processes, paper, 2020.
Lichen Descending, drawing, alternative photographic processes, digital art, paper, 2020.
Corbridge 2, part of Action Art for a Dying World, black/white sustainable photography, cyanotype print on paper - 30 feet x 4.5 feet, 2022.
Tynemouth, part of Action Art for a Dying World, cyanotype print on cotton muslin, 155cm x 210cm, 2022.
When Women Write Their Pain, installation in process, 2022.
Quin de la Mer is a posthuman artist working at the intersection of ecological consciousness, materiality, and spiritual engagement. Their multidisciplinary practice integrates oil painting, alternative photography, and mediumistic methodologies to collaborate with more-than-human beings—spirits of place, natural forces, and spectral presences. Through foraged pigments, cyanotype processes, and ritual-based art-making, they explore liminality, entanglement, and the dissolution of human exceptionalism.
De la Mer’s abstract paintings appear richly textured yet remain smooth, engaging the viewer’s perception of depth and material illusion. Their alternative photographic work—ranging from cyanotype ‘paintings’ shaped by environmental forces to phytogram film processing using plant chemistry—reveals hidden energies and unseen dimensions. Their practice is a process of deep listening and translation, engaging with Death as a force of transformation and landscapes as sentient archives of time.
Committed to ecological and spiritual dialogue, de la Mer’s work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, public forums, and experimental installations. They have participated in residencies that emphasize material collaboration with place, including upcoming projects in Svalbard and Arctic environments. Their work serves as an invocation—an invitation to reconsider our entanglement with the natural world, not as separate from it, but as participants in its ongoing transformation.