Of her work she says “My practice explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and landscapes; it investigates their relationship through drawing, painting and scholarly writing.” Paintings and drawings by Tucker have been exhibited in ‘Landscape During Times of Uncertainty’ at Southampton City Art Gallery (2015), ‘Drawn 2013’, Royal West of England Academy (2013), ‘Shadows Traces Undercurrents’ Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Regis Centre for Art, Minneapolis, USA, (2012), ‘Arts and Geographies’, Musée des Moulages, Lyon, France, (2013) ‘Postmemorial Landscapes’, Armory Gallery, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. Her work has been acquired by New Hall Collection of Women’s Art, Cambridge, New College, Oxford, The Priseman Seabrook Collection, St Matthias Kolleg, Germany and Swindon Art Gallery.

(2018/19) Walking Backwards: art between places in twenty-first century Britain in Walking: Landscape and Environment ed David Borthwick Taylor and Francis (forthcoming)

(2017) Tucker JA and Tarlo HAB ‘Drawing closer’: an ecocritical consideration of collaborative, cross-disciplinary practices of walking, writing, drawing and exhibiting in Extending Ecocriticism: crisis, collaboration and challenges in the environmental humanities. eds Welstead and Barry, MUP (forthcoming)

(2017) Tucker JA and Tarlo HAB “Off path, counter path”: contemporary collaborations in landscape, art and poetry” Critical Survey, Berghan, p 105-132

(2012) Tucker. J. Brooding on Bornholm: postmemory, painting and place in Jones O. and Garde-Hansen, J. (eds)

(2011) Tucker. J. On the Beach at Bornholm: Journal of Visual Art Practice

2010) Tucker. J. The Lido in the Forest: Painting, Memory and Subjectivity in Memory, Mourning and Landscape: Interdisciplinary Essays, eds.Elizabeth Anderson, Avril Maddrell, Kate McLoughlin and Alana Vincent. Rodopi Press Amsterdam.

(2009) Tucker. J. Belated Landscapes: A Second-Generation Aesthetic Practice in a British Context. Journal for the Study of British Cultures (JSBC)

(2008) ‘Resort: re/visiting, re/visioning, re/placing’, Journal of Visual Art Practice5: 1, pp. 95–106, doi: 10.1386/jvap.5.1.95/1

(2007) Tucker. J. Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation in Culture, Creativity and Environment: new environmentalist criticism. eds. Fiona Becket and Terry Gifford, Rodopi Press Amsterdam. Tucker. J. Painting Places: A Postmemorial ‘Landscape’? Book Chapter in Migratory Aesthetics. eds. Samuel Durrant and Catherine Lord. Rodopi Press Amsterdam

Judith Tucker was born in Bangor, Wales in 1960. She completed a B.A. Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, St Anne’s College, Oxford, (1978–81) an M.A. Fine Art,], (1997–98) and a PhD in Fine Art at the University of Leeds (1999–2002). Tucker is co-convenor of LAND2, a research network of artists associated with Higher Education who are concerned with radical approaches to landscape with a particular focus on memory, place and identity. She exhibits regularly in the UK and Europe. Between 2003–2006 Tucker was an AHRC Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts.