What Stories Make Worlds
Focusing on our relationship with landscape and the environment at a time of climate change and biodiversity collapse, this exhibition charts a journey from the importance of our deep oceans and shorelines, along rivers to local hills and the gardens at Hestercombe. It brings together work by Emma Critchley, Feral Practice with Megan Broadmeadow, Hannah Fletcher, Lydia Halcrow and Jem Southam and includes work from Hestercombe鈥檚 own collections, together with a newly commissioned audio play by Stephanie Weston.
Emma Critchley uses a combination of photography, film, sound to continually explore human relationships with the underwater environment as a political, philosophical and environmental space. Focusing here, for example, on the imminent threat of deep-sea mining for rare earth minerals, or the long-term study of a 4-acre tidal pool, a remnant of a coastal town鈥檚 heyday. The materiality of the coast is also from where Lydia Halcrow鈥檚 inspiration comes. Made over a period of 8 years walking the banks of the Taw Estuary in North Devon, a time that coincided with the last years of her grandmother鈥檚 life, living as she did overlooking the river. Her work, that spans print, drawing, installation and painting, is formed in response to a close observation of human traces in our landscapes and the gradual decay of post-industrial structures and coastal erosion through the passage of time.
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Focusing on our relationship with landscape and the environment at a time of climate change and biodiversity collapse, this exhibition charts a journey from the importance of our deep oceans and shorelines, along rivers to local hills and the gardens at Hestercombe. It brings together work by Emma Critchley, Feral Practice with Megan Broadmeadow, Hannah Fletcher, Lydia Halcrow and Jem Southam and includes work from Hestercombe鈥檚 own collections, together with a newly commissioned audio play by Stephanie Weston.
Emma Critchley uses a combination of photography, film, sound to continually explore human relationships with the underwater environment as a political, philosophical and environmental space. Focusing here, for example, on the imminent threat of deep-sea mining for rare earth minerals, or the long-term study of a 4-acre tidal pool, a remnant of a coastal town鈥檚 heyday. The materiality of the coast is also from where Lydia Halcrow鈥檚 inspiration comes. Made over a period of 8 years walking the banks of the Taw Estuary in North Devon, a time that coincided with the last years of her grandmother鈥檚 life, living as she did overlooking the river. Her work, that spans print, drawing, installation and painting, is formed in response to a close observation of human traces in our landscapes and the gradual decay of post-industrial structures and coastal erosion through the passage of time.
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