Nell Catchpole
Nell is an environmental sound artist, composer, educator, and researcher. Her sound art focuses on the socio-ecologies of her local landscape in Teesside. Her listening and sounding practices explore the inter-relationships of landscape, materials of place, human and more-than-human beings. Recent work includes ‘Unbeaten Valley’ commissioned by MIMA in NE England; ‘Teesmouth’ for BBC Radio 3’s ‘Sounding Change’; and ‘Transported’ as Artist in Residence for the Most Creative Station programme. She is Co-Director of Sonic Arts Week festival in NE England and is currently a PhD researcher at Newcastle University. Nell is co-founder and mentor for We Make Sound, a free creative project for young people in Hartlepool and Tees Valley.
At Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Nell runs experimental curatorial project, Unfinished with Jan Hendrickse and co-directs music/visual arts project, MAP/making with Sophie Clements (Royal College of Art).
As a composer, Nell has made work with artists such as choreographer Hofesh Shechter (Barbican, Royal Opera House, Sadlers Wells), theatre director Lucy Bailey (international) and poet Kae Tempest (London BAC, Edinburgh Fringe).
As violinist, she has worked for three decades with Brian Eno (solo albums, John Cale, U2, Drawn From Life), and performed with artists including Nigel Kennedy, Palestinian band Sabreen, Jocelyn Pook, and Fred Frith.
Nell co-founded and toured internationally with music theatre company, the gogmagogs (1995 - 2007).