I have been invited to exhibit a new moving image and two cyanotypes in ‘Re-Wild’ a group exhibition and community project curated by Sheyamali Sudesh at Ilford Spark Lab. The project explores ‘Sacred Symbiotic’ relationships in relation to green spaces in and around Ilford.
You can visit my work, as well as film and sound work by other artists at the opening event on Friday 26th August from 5 pm to 7 pm. Book tickets and find out more information here. Ilford Station is a 20-minute train journey from Liverpool Street Station on the Elizabeth Line.
The project continues from 19th August - 18th September (Friday to Sunday) and 22nd - 25th September (Thursday to Sunday). Opening times: weekdays and Saturdays 11 am - 5 pm, Sundays 11 am - 4 pm.
‘Sleepwalking in Hainault’ is a continuation of my ‘Sleepwalking’ series and is filmed through a yellow plastic bag. The moving image captures recognisable landmarks of Hainault Forest and the Country Park, an ancient woodland and once a royal hunting forest. It celebrates what we have come to expect from our human-shaped recreational spaces – Canadian geese, benches, dogs, wildflowers, and the distant voices of families and children.
The yellow-tinted dreamlike state of this moving image also explores our complicated relationship to the more-than-human in a year of record-breaking temperatures – as we sleepwalk through cracked earth and dead grass.