Jamima Latimer grew up on the moors in a rural household shaped by self-sufficiency and close relationship with the land. Her childhood was unconventional: there was no television, the family kept goats and other animals, dug peat from the moor to heat the home and relied on a water supply her mother discovered behind the house. When the water ran dry, trips to collect water from the village three miles away were part of everyday life. These experiences created a deep awareness of landscape, labour and resourcefulness that continues to inform her work.

Jamima studied Interactive art and later founded Spacecadets, an arts company creating large-scale interactive inflatable sculptures for galleries, festivals and public events. During the COVID pandemic she also founded SwimFeral, designing an outdoor changing bag for wild swimming. Although the business was intended to support future art projects, it also led to years spent immersed in landscape through outdoor swimming and walking. Her work now brings together large-scale sculptural thinking with a deep personal connection to wild places.

ARTISTS

Curlew Collective brings together artists whose lives have long been shaped by landscape, unusual childhoods and unconventional creative paths.

Sarah Latimer, Jamima’s older sister, grew up in the same rural moorland environment, daily life involved improvisation, creativity and close contact with nature. Without many modern distractions, much of her childhood was spent exploring the landscape, observing wildlife and making things from whatever materials were available.

She studied Fine Art before choosing a different professional path, working for many years as a care worker and later as a forest school teacher. Throughout this time she continued to make art and maintain a strong connection to the natural world. Her practice often begins with marks and traces left by landscape processes, from which she draws out hidden forms and creatures. Sarah has never stopped “poking around in nature,” allowing curiosity, observation and imagination to guide her work.

Lowri Morris grew up in a remote village in rural Wales with parents who were both artists and potters. Raised in a creative household, she was immersed in making and craft from an early age. She attended Welsh-language schools while speaking English at home, and with little to do in the rural landscape she learned early on to invent her own forms of entertainment through drawing, making and creating.

Lowri studied Fine Art before becoming a sculpture conservator at Tate and later setting up 3D Conservation, her career has given her deep material knowledge of sculpture, structure and form through years spent preserving and repairing artworks. An exceptionally skilled artist, particularly in drawing and sculpture, she is now returning to her own creative practice and developing new work rooted in landscape and material exploration.