Decca Faire is a mixed media artist specialising in film, photography, spoken word and performance. Her practice is a distinctively active one. Through the physically demanding pursuits of ultra-marathon running, distance walking and cold water swimming, she explores themes of womanhood, isolation, freedom, and endurance. To these ends, she makes idiosyncratic use of figure in the landscape.
In 2021 she graduated from Glasgow School of Art where she received a first-class degree in Fine Art Photography. She has exhibited at House for an Art Lover, The Wells Maltings Arts Centre and Burnham Overy Boathouse.
Much of her early work was inspired by living on the North Norfolk coast where she grew up, and in whose landscapes, among others, she finds solace. More recently her work has taken her to the Alps, where she walked The Haute route (a 225 km walk crossing 11 passes reaching a height of 2,987m) as a piece of endurance performance. She now lives in London where she is pursuing her practice.
