Pauline Woolley

Born 1975, Woolley lives and works in Nottingham. Her work has been exhibited across the UK, Europe and USA. In 2022 her piece Solar Tree won the Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation as part of The Astronomy Photography of the Year. This work is now displayed in the Laboratory of Tree Ring Research (LTTR) at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. In 2024 LTTR awarded her the Agnese N. Haury Visiting Scholar Fellowship to research the photographic plate archive of dendrochronologist/astronomer A E Douglass. She holds a BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree from Leeds Metropolitan University specialising in painting and is currently an Associate Member of Backlit Gallery, Nottingham.

Pauline Woolley's practice is concerned with sky, time, place and astronomy. She uses many different historic and current photographic practices to explore the human relationship to Earth and its connection to deep time through the scientific exploration of light.

She uses the form of the book to experiment with different ways of presenting images and ideas.