Walking and Mapping

Walking and Mapping

Walking and Mapping Artists as Cartographers By Karen O’Rourke https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/walking-and-mapping Overview From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again...

Polly Morgan: artist talk

After the First Friday lunch on May 6, artist Polly Morgan will talk about her extraordinary contemporary taxidermy: stunning sculptural objects that revere and seem sometimes fearful of the animals and birds whose bodies she uses in her work. BOOK HERE (free)  ...
The tiger, before it leaps

The tiger, before it leaps

A lovely essay posted on the Landscape and Art Network site recently. Worth a read. Martin Spray’s The tiger, before it leaps. “TO THE TIGER, you are but meat. To you, if you see it before it springs, the tiger is a beautiful thing, and a terrible one. Do...
Dawn Quiet Walk booking open

Dawn Quiet Walk booking open

Booking for our Dawn Quiet Walk event with Tony Whitehead is now open. Sunday 8 May 2016 Meet 4:00am by the main entrance to Dartington Hall (by The Barn Cinema) BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL  Join artist Tony Whitehead on a quiet dawn walk to listen to first light over the...
Reblog of reblog

Reblog of reblog

Sharing this reblog from Chris Fremantle of ecoartscotland I spent not long enough visiting the Biennale this past summer and although moved by very little (remarkably, sadly little) was also enchanted by this work in the South Korean pavilion. Reblogged Reflections...