Tag: Leicestershire
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Artwork blossoming in the woods
I have two artworks in the Beacon Sculpture Trail until 17th September Blossom and Thorn, my textile homage to hedgerows, is on display in an old hedgerow in the country park’s sculpture trail. This work was made in 2023 with volunteer hedge-researchers exploring alongside the National Forest Way, a long distance footpath weaving through the…
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Showing the Unseen
Sharing some of my work about hidden stories of care at Cultures of Care Gathering 19-20 July Usually I work towards exhibitions all the time, with a known location and display arrangement in a museum, art gallery or even library, corridor or empty shop. For various reasons, my Cultures of Care project hasn’t culminated in…
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Map Making
Places and Traces project is developing quickly now. Last summer we went on walks and did wild workshops in the woods and orchards, and spent the winter meetings in the local studies library exploring maps and documents. Over the next few months we are working with artist Hannah Moreton to create a large map sharing…
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Mapping our personal histories
Places & Traces project has moved indoors after a summer of walks and wild workshops. We are now looking at maps and documents to plan our own tactile map of emotional histories of Charnwood Forest. The final two meetings of this year are in Loughborough library where we are looking at historical maps and talking…
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Walking the earth
Reflections from Places & Traces August walk Places and Traces is about exploring connections to the landscape we live in. In early August the project took to the footpaths near Woodhouse Eaves in the heart of Charnwood Forest. I lead a short walk through village edges, fields and farm tracks with the invitation to think…
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Memory Maps
What do remember about special places you have visited? What can you remember of your time spent there? What features or experiences stick in your memory? These memory maps of Charnwood Forest were created during my first Places & Traces event at the Outwoods, Loughborough in June. We talked about our different relationships with this…
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Emotional Landscapes
Places & Traces is part of my Cultures of Care project. Part of Cultures of Care is care of nature and landscape, place and belonging. I’ve been working for a year now with a wellness in nature group and wanted to build on what I’ve learned in that residency to create something more focussed on…
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Leicestershire Artist Opportunities
I’ve been working on a great project with Creative Leicestershire recently and we’ve just advertised five artist opportunities for Leicestershire artists. The idea is to create artist-led events in five market towns, each for a week, in empty shops or other similar venues. There’s also mentoring and professional development as part of the project so…
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Lines and Places
Landscape history and artist practice After a hedge-hiatus early this year for my Blossom & Thorn project, I’m back to my previous landscape project. I’m slowly walking all of the paths in a 10 square mile-ish area near my home and looking for interesting things like old boundaries, ancient woodlands, good hedges, ridge and furrow…
Ruth Singer 