rescue and salvage missions // deterritorializing desire // acts of treason // songs of hope

Wanda Orme is a multidisciplinary visual artist and writer working across the mediums of photography, sculpture and language to pursue an exploration of the world which is both and analytical and visceral.

Born on the Isle of Man and raised in London, she is drawn to wilderness, thresholds, and meetings of difference. Her work explores the power of the natural world, the unseen, desire, resonance and the relationships between human and non-human bodies. Her works often carry within them a duality - intimacy and expanse, destruction and creation. Her artistic practice is a shifting site-specific engagement with an animate world that talks back, she is seeking to learn.

Wanda has most recently been nominated for the 2022 Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability. In 2021 she was nominated for global photography and sustainability award the Prix Pictet for her photographic series "Blue on Fire" concerning the Salton Sea in southern California. She was also nominated for the 2019 Prix Pictet for her series concerning the Salton Sea "Hope's Paradox".

She has presented talks at Photo London, her photography has been exhibited internationally and clients and publications include: The New York Times, AnOther Magazine, Coco de Mer, The Sunday Times, Vogue Italia, Dazed Digital, Port Magazine and The Eye of Photography.

Wanda holds a graduate certificate in psychotherapy along with master’s degrees in both anthropology (University of California, San Diego) and psychology (New School for Social Research, New York), during which she specialised in the study of vulnerability.

Alongside her artistic practice Wanda works as an integrative coach and therapist, if you are interested in being coached by Wanda you can learn more at: www.rebellightcoaching.com

She is the author of the poetry collection The Becoming Light of Water (Whitefox Press, 2018) and two collections of poetry and photography: Blue on Fire (Calexico Press, 2021) and Volcano Songs (Guest Editions, 2022).