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becoming ocean becoming me

Peter Matthews is an English artist who works exclusively along the coast, in the ocean and occasionally, over the last few years, creeping inland into the mountains and deserts. As a landscape-based artist, his work explores a direct and lived experience with time, place, space and the physical and spiritual relationships with nature. He does not work from a studio and therefore his works and process of being out in the landscape challenge and seek balance with the elements of the ever-changing climate, earth and extended universe.

Perception and Reality

David Rickard is a New Zealand artist based in London, UK. His original studies in architecture have had a lasting impact on his art practice, embedding queries of material and spatial perception deep into his work. Through research and experimentation his works attempt to understand how we arrived at our current perception of the physical world and how far our perception is from what we call reality.

Thaddeus Holownia: Structures of Place

Thaddeus Holownia is a visual artist, teacher, letterpress printer and publisher. In Holownia’s large-scale photographs, he uses the idea of heightened perception to explore the traces humankind leaves on the landscape. About his work, he echoes Thoreau’s observation, “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”. In this interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande, he discusses his ideas and work.

Human-Machine Collaborations

Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher, and is the founder and artistic director of Scilicet, a London-based studio exploring human & non-human collaboration. A former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab, she is considered a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration – exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems.

Celebrating our connection to the land

Hillary Waters Fayle combines textiles and printmaking techniques with found botanical and organic material, exploring the symbolism, geometry and patterns found in nature. From simple lines and ribbing to fully rendered botanics, the thread-based embellishments interrupt the fragile matter. The resulting sculptures evidence nature’s durability while juxtaposing the organic material with the fabricated additions.

Patrick Huse: Harvesting Wasteland

Patrick Huse is a Norwegian painter and multi-media artist. He studied landscape art and conceptualism during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. His works incorporate techniques as painting, drawing, photograph, video, wall based text material and objects. In the early 1990’s he started a project titled Rethinking Landscape, a trilogy consisting of the three parts: ‘Nordic Landscape’, ‘RIFT’ and ‘Penetration’. The traditional landscape art still plays a role as an artistic reference, but through a series of exhibitions from the mid-1990’s and later, he has challenged landscape art in a way which makes his project unique. In this interview with art and ecology author, John K. Grande, he discusses his ideas and work.

The Beauty and Fragility of Nature

Meredith Woolnough is an internationally acclaimed, award winning artist from Newcastle, Australia. Her elegant, embroidered drawings capture the beauty and fragility of nature in knotted threads. Vibrant coloured structures of organic shapes hover effortlessly above the surface, elegant and enchanting.

“The more I work with natural forms, the more I find myself drawn into the science of nature. I am fascinated by the way things are built, the way they grow and function. I often find myself marvelling at the perfection of a single leaf or the phenomenal beauty of a coral reef and it can be quite overwhelming at times, almost spiritual.”

Painting as a form of meditation

Deeply connected to nature and interested in human consciousness, Alicia Blaze Hunsicker is inspired by both science and spirituality. Alicia has shown her work both nationally and internationally. She has received numerous grants and awards, and has been a resident artist at the D. Fleiss & East West International Artists Residency, Mallnitz, Austria, as well as at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.

On ‘PRESENCE: The science and true stories of the unseen other’

Ben Alderson-Day is an Associate Professor at Durham University and member of the Developmental Science research group at Durham. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Early Career Hallucinations Research (ECHR) group, a network of over 250 ECRs in 24 countries conducting research on hallucinations and related topics. His most recent research has concerned “felt presence”: the sensation that someone is present without any sensory cues. In this interview, he discusses his latest book ‘PRESENCE: The strange and true stories of the unseen other’ (Manchester University Press, March 2023).