Roxane Permar

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The Croft Cosy Project 1992 - 95

Roxane Permar is a Burra-based visual artist and a member of the Veer North collective. Roxane Permar has worked in the field of public art and socially engaged practice since 1990. She creates works in a variety of media that respond to the history, community and culture of a location. Processes for networking, participation, consultation and inter-disciplinary collaboration underpin her work.

She has been involved with Shetland since 1985 when she began to visit regularly and moved to Burra Isle permanently in 2000. In 1990 she worked with Susan Timmins to create the public project, The Nuclear Roadshow, and from 1992-95 she worked with Wilma Johnson on another project, The Croft Cosy Project. Since 2001 she has worked with young people through a variety of special projects, largely focussing on the use of digital media.

While Shetland culture has played an important role in her work since the late 1980s, her visual art practice is situated locally, nationally and internationally. Since 2001 she has realised projects and exhibited in Shetland, the UK, Russia, Europe, Japan and Australia. In 2006 her project, Roseland, combined installation, gift-giving and exchange through exhibitions and events in Shetland, Roydon (near London) and Düsseldorf.

In 2007 new works include Blueprints, a participatory project commissioned by Newlyn Art Gallery; Come and Go, a film for the permanent displays in the new Shetland Museum and Archives and Domestic Dialogues a collaborative project with Susan Timmins linking Shetland and St Petersburg, Russia through dialogue, gift-giving and exchange.