Artworks Washford Pyne, 13 by Hannah Brown Hannah Browns work was recently selected for the Whitechapel Gallery’s London Open and it is there that we saw her work, fell in love with its intimacy and detail and…
Artworks Ash series: I by Colin Booth Booth collected off-cuts of ash, beech and birch ply from a furniture factory in Hastings, collecting pieces which retained the traces of colour used by timber manufactures to protect the…
ArtworksWriting Abhainn Ashik to Yr Onnen by Ackroyd and Harvey Ackroyd & Harvey undertook a wide ranging research and development period for The Ash Project, during this time the artists amassed considerable data showing how the ash tree is rooted…
ArtworksContributions “ashes to go” by Maureen Jordan “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return”. In 2018 took part in a weekend workshop run by the performance-photographer Manuel Vason as part of The Ash…
Artworks ‘frisson’ by Cydney Adams ‘frisson’ is a photographic stop motion film motivated by the rapid decline of the Ash tree. The film documents human interaction with a forest and draws on the similarities between…
ArtworksWriting “Ash Tree” by Chris Poundwhite In so few strides I circumambulate the tree, its centuries centred in rings of heartwood, sapwood – the circularity of years, charted seasons, bud & leaf-fall, bloom & icicle Myth…
Artworks “Viritditas” Choral Work by Anil Sebastian and London Contemporary Voices The piece begins and ends with the sound of sap rising through an ash tree recorded by Alex Metcalf. One by one, the choir members sing melodic fragments from ‘O Frondens…
ArtworksWriting “Ash” by Jay Griffiths Yesterday, out in the hills, a buzzard flew low overhead as it often does, and settled in the branches of one particular tree, as I had seen it do countless…
Artworks My Grandfather’s Tree by Max Lamb Monckton Walk Farm in the Yorkshire Wolds is run by Max Lamb’s grandfather, Dr. Robert Andrew Dunning. Next to his farm grew a female ash tree. The age of the…
Artworks Ash Dome by David Nash David Nash’s famous Ash Dome was planted as saplings in 1977 and is now a mature dome centered on a plot of woodland in North Wales in Nash’s ‘laboratory’ for…
Artworks Transmission Spores by Magz Hall In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil was an enormous ash tree that harboured all the life in the universe a signifier of its power and resilience. For the last ten years an…
Artworks Autumn Richardson & Richard Skelton: Relics (Fraxinus) Relics is a series of visual poems that conjure the ghost forests of Cumbria’s Furness Fells –now long gone but remembered in pollen drifts- a 12.000-year old alluvial record stretching…
Artworks ash to ash (study) by Ackroyd & Harvey Ackroyd & Harvey have been awarded a major commission by Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to create a sculptural artwork acting as both celebration and legacy of the…
Artworks Sheaf + Barley: Rune Set for Forespeaking Runes, discovered and given to humans by a god, descending from the Phoenecian alphabet, were imbued with a material significance and aliveness in a way that modern writing is not.…
Artworks Ghost by Adam Chodzko Ghost (2010) is a kayak; a sculpture as vessel, coffin, bed, costume and camera rig. It is designed to ferry people to the island of the dead. To initiate this process…