An artist has taken up a three-week residency in Shepton Mallet this week.

Fiona Campbell is an award-winning environmental artist who creates sculptural installations. She will be at Create@#8, Shepton Mallet, 20 Feb-10 March to develop her work.

The space will be open to visitors on Fridays and other days by appointment. From 11-19 March, work will be showcased in a solo exhibition.

The Opening Event is Saturday 11 March, 2-4pm where there will be a compositional soundscape in response to works by Ushara Dil-rukshan.

Fiona will also show a range of suspended, wall-mounted and freestanding works in the empty shop space, including a few pieces from her Life in the Undergrowth project.

Engaged with sustainability in her practice, she uses reclaimed, discarded and found materials. She has created site-responsive work for interesting public spaces, reaching the wider public who may not have engaged with contemporary art before.

Fiona is currently developing new work as part of her Arts Council England 'Developing Your Creative Practice Award'. The award supported her recent research trip to Kenya (Fiona's place of birth and upbringing), where she re-connected with her roots and the Kenyan contemporary art scene.

"My approach is a form of suturing, slow art, artivism. This relates to concerns about climate breakdown, human exploitation of nature and over-consumption, which has led to catastrophic mass animal/plant extinctions. Labour-intensive, the binding, weaving, hand-stitching and re-appropriation of materials considers value, care and repair, making do, our relationship with matter, nature, and ourselves," she explains.

"I've been developing work in response to the entanglements of life, celebrating our natural world. Flags of the Forest is inspired by woodlands. The flags celebrate bio-diversity, hope-ful of nature being more cared for, and thriving. These involve a combination of sculptural lines and fields of colour in space - hand-stitched patchworks of semi-translucent textiles and plastic remnants. Some I've botanically dyed, eco-printed or embedded with found objects collected on walks. Woods and forests provide vital ecosystems - crucial to our survival."

Linked to her exhibition, Fiona will be running an Eco Sculpture Workshop on Saturday, 18 March, 2-4pm.