artist statement
Zöe Louise Platt is a visual artist working somewhere between craft, graphic design and sculpture. Working with simple materials, predominantly paper, she makes work on and with surface across two and three dimensions. She likes making ‘things’ that often cross the line between image and object, exploring visual and physical relationships between composition and construction. Her design sensibilities lean in to constraints and logic, whilst her inclination for hand-based making embraces the intuition and deviation that emerge through material behaviours.
biography
Zöe was born and lives in Yorkshire, England. She trained in graphic design between 2002 and 2009, specialising in graphics, advertising and typography; and qualified as a teacher of art and design in the lifelong learning sector in 2014. After teaching at a specialist arts university in the north of England for 10 years as curriculum lead for graphic communication, she left her post in 2025 to focus on developing her practice. Zöe continues to share her passion for teaching and learning alongside her making through her studio, Short & Few, where she runs workshops and creative projects centred on making, experimentation and exchange.
up-coming residencies
Zöe will undertake a short sabbatical during August and September 2026, spending time in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, to develop the cyanotype strand of her practice. Working within a landscape where mountains, coastline and forest converge, she will explore the relationship between place and process through photography and written documentation.
Following this period, Zöe will undertake a three-week print and bookmaking residency at Valencia Print Workshop, Spain. Building on her research into place-based practice, this residency will extend her investigation into how visual and textual responses are shaped by both familiarity and unfamiliarity with surroundings.
Both residencies are self-funded. Donations are welcomed to support this stage of her practice development and can be made via: paypal.me/shortandfew
email: zoelouiseartist@gmail.com