MOVING LANDSCAPES / Oliver raymond-barker

This work explores the concept that stone is a fluid organism, undergoing phenomenal change during its lifespan, albeit at a very slow rate, often beyond our perception.

“It also engages with ideas relating to Animism: the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence and potency as real and valid as our own. This way of engaging with the world was familiar to the oral cultures of our ancestors but is largely lost to our modern civilisation. This loss has surely been instrumental in leading us to the present moment. At a time of extreme ecological instability perhaps remembering these embodied, animistic ways of interacting could provide a positive frame of reference for the relationships we have with the world around us.” Oliver Raymond-Barker

“The magic of animistic perception, the utter weirdness and dark wonder that lives in any deeply place-based relation to the earth, is the felt sense of being in contact with wakeful forms of sentience that are richly different from one’s own - the experience of interaction with intelligences that are radically other from one’s own human style of intelligence.” David Abram, Magic and the Machine, 2018

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MOVING LANDSCAPES / KITTY HILLIER

Kitty’s ‘sound sculptures’ take their influence from the interlocking shapes she found at Chun Downs. From the man made quoit and Cornish hedges to the natural cairn, she was struck by how the rocks interlock and fit together. Inspired by this and captivated by the sound of the long grasses in the wind, she wanted to create something that spoke to our innate desire to build structures and make music.

“This project has made me consider how sound, music and rhythm has connected us over many centuries. From the first ‘rock gongs’ and rain sticks, singing and dancing round a fire together is powerful because it reminds us we are one. We are human, mammals, with more in common than we realise. Everyone struggles. Using even the simplest materials (sticks, grasses, rocks) to make percussion instruments, sound has such power to move us, it permeates the deepest cells in our bodies, allowing light to enter the darkest voids. The movement, humming, it is automatic and unconscious, we do not use our brains but our instinct, mood and gut feel, it’s chemical.” Kitty Hillier

www.kittyhillier.co.uk
@kittyhillier

MOVING LANDSCAPES / rosanna martin

The human impact on the land around china clay country is vast, due to the large quantities of material that have been removed during the process of extracting china clay. On Rose’s walk at Baal Pit, the sense of a manipulated landscape was ever present, some parts of the path had been recently carved out and building work was taking place for the construction of a new village. The path she was on was made out of quartz and mica sand, two of the major by-products from the china clay industry. 

“Following my walk I began to look at the crystal forms of quartz and mica and used their shapes to inform the work. The pieces are made using materials collected from the landscape, all of which are waste from the extraction process. Having the walk as the original focus for the commission was a brilliant way to directly engage with the landscape and create work that is inspired by, made of and about the materials from that particular place. Having the engagement as part of the process enabled me to share processes of making with found clays and to recognise the importance of places and landscape to our health and well-being.” Rosanna Martin

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MOVING LANDSCAPES / rACHAEL JONES

Film and photography documents are brought together as field recordings with collage techniques applied to moving images. Their unusual placements open up space for interpretations of the landscape and thoughts on materiality.

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All photos by Oliver Udy / @oliverudy