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"All researchers in their own way are engaged in the process of inquiry, and the most salient feature of inquiry is its open-endedness. It is pursued for no reason whatsoever, it is the project of the passionately curious. The wilderness is stalked by explorers without maps and without any particular goals; their principle compass is their reason."

Robert Irwin

MA Fine Art in Context. UWE 2000 (distinction)

Thesis: 'negotiated practice – InSites'challenges the notion that context-led / site-specific practice is a 'new'or recent development; arguing that iconoclastic archiving & institutional frameworks of critical discourse have isolated artworks from their context - the wider social
& cultural relations within which they were created.  

exhibition case study: 'return'Prema Arts Centre and accompanying catalogue 'afterimages' (ISBN). The catalogue essay by Martin Lister draws attention to the problematics of archiving temporal works and the commodification of artist’s strategies; with reference to a series of sited works made by Annie between 1993 –1998.

Situated in a former church & burial ground, this site-generated exhibition celebrated continuum and natural cycles of regeneration - pertinent to the shared personal and community memory of the death of a child. The work received national coverage in a 2 page feature for the Guardian,
by Simon Hattenstone.

'The show could be sentimental & self-indulgent. In fact it is anything but. The work is entrancing and typical of the way Lovejoy marries nature and technology. Her art is varied & what does unite her work is its sense of place, its rootedness
- in every sense.'

Simon Hattenstone

Visiting Research Fellow (UWE 2002 – 2004)

'threads & networks' - practice-based research in locative media & wearable technologies.
case studies:
Pillow: produced in association with Hewlett Packard Research Labs & exhibited at Tomorrows World, Earls Court, London, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol and Kibla Media Centre, Slovenia.
Millennium Square: GPS/ wearables research H.P. / Univ. of Bristol Computer Science dept.
Your Heart on My Sleeve: wearable / mobile tech project exhibited at Siggraph, LA. USA

Ongoing practice-based research:
'InSites'- interfaces of location & memory'
web archive - processes & outcomes of site-responsive arts practice

interface – the point of connection between things
location - the site, situation, context or position of something.
memory – experiential, collective, associative, knowledge base, data & archiving

relationships pertinent to context which inform the development of situated artworks and how such works are recorded, archived, re-presented and re-membered.