With experience as a performer, artist and creative workshop leader, J A Pinney produces physical and conceptual artworks exploring the amplification of human emotional experiences of the natural world. Pinney is interested in art that highlights natural environments and encourages close attention to the way specific locations sound, whilst also considering the ecological, cultural, historical, and emotional importance of such sounds and landscapes.

Their artwork develops imagined soundscapes, ways of listening, and narratives based on the experiences of non-human animals in their natural environment and how humans can reconceptualise these experiences through dreams, imagination, and fantasy.

Using sound, installation, and collaborative workshops, their work always aims to release the psychological boundaries we put on ourselves and embrace a more open way of approaching and experiencing the world around us.

Pinney has an MA in sound art from the London College of Communication, an MA in aural and visual culture from Goldsmiths University, has exhibited and performed their work both nationally and internationally, and most recently submitted their PhD dissertation for examination at RMIT’s School of Art. There, Pinney researched the sounds and worlds of non-human animals and individuals, and whether it is possible to extend human perception and sensory abilities beyond those of our own.