Known for her sculptures and mixed media works that explore our relationship to objects, Channer uses materials ranging from metal and concrete to textiles and paper.
Channer creates sculptures that address the distortion of materials and absence of human bodies within a postindustrial environment, often stretching objects to warp their position within the landscape.
[6] More recently, Channer has been making rock sculptures, and for the last few years, she has been collecting fragments of concrete around her studio in London, left over from construction projects within the urban environment.
The artist takes these human-made rocks, all small enough to fit in her backpack, back to her studio to create 3-D scans that are stretched out digitally, up to six feet.
Select group exhibitions include: In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy, Hayward Gallery (traveling to The Whitworth, Manchester; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; 2016–17); Wer Nicht Denken Will, Fleigt Raus, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (2016); Chat Jet (Part 2) – Sculpture in Reflection, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria, Nature after Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, Pool, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany (all 2014); Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale (2013); and Glasgow International, UK (2010).