Malca Schotten

Malca Schotten has worked a lot on large-scale art projects in the public domain. A good example, exhibited in Norwich, was her 2013 show called I’m Not Dead Yet, (www.imnotdeadyetblog.com), documenting and celebrating the lives and histories of older residents of Norwich. She has also made a series of explorations, in more than one show, of coastal erosion on the North Norfolk beaches. She has produced a large body of drawings called ‘Maternity’ following her own journey through pregnancy and motherhood.

The social concerns that underpin all her projects, were perhaps most clearly displayed in her earlier 2003 project; The East Anglia Rural Building Trade project’ on regional building trades and the local people involved. These are as always, conceived as a collaboration with her subjects; the set of works and the processes involved in their construction highlight complex issues around trade skills and apprenticeships in rural East Anglia.

Malca has recently embarked on a new project, Lives In Science. Funded by The Arts Council, and local funding bodies, this will be a major exhibition at The Norwich Science Festival October 2017, also marking 50 years of The John Innes Centre in Norwich.