Pheobe Law

My practice is multifaceted, and I work in mediums including sound, sculpture, film, installation, and performance. I seek to re-evaluate the use and meaning of functional spaces, objects, and devices, questioning aspects of human activity through both division and borders.

My current interests and research has been focussed on the barriers held between “us” (humans) and other species, looking into the culture we have towards cattle, dairy agriculture, and urban wildlife. I am interested in the two different types of symbiotic relationships which are mutualism and commensalism. Within my practice I try to playfully question these relationships and the norms that we define ourselves through by exploring the safety measures that humanity put in place to disrupt, navigate or distinguish us from other species, cultures, and traditions. Often, I focus on how we define and separate the functional and aesthetic in ways that seem odd and often futuristic.


“Cattle Grid” as a part of the series ‘Survival of the Hoof’, 2020, 100 x 150 cm, Steel

“tread”, wood and resin, 60 x 40 cm, 2021

“Yoke [3]”, wood and steel, 80 x 2 x 10 cm, 2021

“Trough [1]”, steel, 180 cm x 30 cm x 130 cm, 2021.