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Walk 6 – veils between worlds
Archive: Rex Whistler drawing – woman as landscape, body as land. Other: The Self-delusion by Tom Oliver; Courting the Wild Twin by Dr Martin Shaw. Location: Arboretum, Westside plantation The Whistler drawing or etching depicts a naked woman lay on […]
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Walk 5 – empathy, metaphor and symbol
Archive: (Collection) Dali lithograph – Eight of swords; EJ letter to Iris Tree Other: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass; last page of P.Wollheben. Heart of the Forest book on empathy; Location: Whitedown, Warren Hangar, Highdown Dali lithograph of tarot displayed […]
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Walk 4 – Time
Archive: Leonor Fini painting (bark and white broken egg shell); EJ Letter to Iris Tree (talks of time, anthropocene, projection, earth, evolution). Others: Peter Wohlleben, Heartbeat of Trees, on Deep Time/Human Time (anthropocene). Location: Buriton Hangar, Phyllis Down Wood, Bushy […]
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Walk 3 – conscious unconscious: melting in stepping out
Archive: Edward James description of taking a ‘trip’ in his hotel room in Mexico; Pavel Tchelitchew – Hide and Seek, including studies for, from a tree on EJ estate Others: Aldous Huxley – Doors of Perception; Rupert Sheldrake – Entangled […]
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Walk 2 – Systems, ideologies and pattern
Walking-with: EJ correspondence with Aldous Huxley, Christmas day 1939, on creating an ideology for a future college. ‘The Giantess” – print of painting by Leonora Carrington once owned by EJ Dr Martin Shaw, mythic storyteller – “we make things holy […]
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Walk 1 – what is the nature of nature?
Friday 10th February 2023 Walked-with: Essay: Rejected Knowledge. Gary Lachman. 2015 published in Magic: Documents of Contemporary Art. Jamie Sutcliffe (Ed.) co-publishers Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press. 2021. Draft letter from Edward James to Iris Tree September 18th, 1940? Quote […]
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Exhibition from residency
Work developed from the exhibition will be available to see in the John Rank Studio, Oxmarket Gallery, Chichester, 3-8 November 10.30-4.30 daily. PREVIEW is 6-8pm Monday 2nd November, all welcome Really pleased that one of the works has been selected […]
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LiDar Group and the awesome Richard Williamson
I spent Monday 17th August 2015 on a guided tour of Kingley Vale with Richard Williamson and the South Downs LiDar Project Group looking at the hidden histories revealed by LiDar maps and memories of Richard. Fascinating layers of information […]
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Sensation drawings – studio
Drawing process in which i let the marks come from simple movement of expression using a soft graphite stick. The sense is of me getting out of the way, of dark and light, of spaces appearing into which light fills […]
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Walking and Belonging: Place, space and imagination
Summary of insights from a talk and seminar at Tate Brtain 30th May 2015 led by artist Emma Smith, relevant to the Kingley Vale residency. Emma Smith introduced her project ‘School for Tourists’: “The School For Tourists is an ongoing […]
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Day 11, Wednesday 20th May 2015
TRANSFORMATION ‘On drawing and painting trees’ (Adrian Keith Hill,1936, Pitman Books): ‘It will be found that the underlying muscular development which categorizes the trunk and limb formation of the human contour is often reproduced in tree life.’ p.69 ‘on Huxley’s […]
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Day 10, Friday 15th May 2015
Taking the idea of anthropomorphism further, of humanising the forest, I clothe trees with underwear. I want to accentuate this idea, using bras work best as they can fit onto the tree. How does humanising the forest through the process […]