Friday 6 July 2018

Surrey Unearthed - 10 projects in the Surrey Hills + exhibition in Dorking

Jonathan Parsons, Archetypal Scribbles
Surrey Unearthed is a programme of ten linked projects exploring the natural materials beneath our feet through sculpture, installation, film, and writing.
The programme celebrates the importance of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with its rich history of local industry, farming and culture shaped by the use of natural materials over time from historic settlements to Capability Brown landscapes and Arts & Crafts architecture.
Connecting people with their local landscapes, the artists engage others in their exploration of chalk, sand, clay, grass, wood, and earth. The artists’ research will unearth hidden insights into a particular material, its uses over time and relevance today. (From Surrey Unearthed website)
Details of the ten projects and a map of their locations can be found here.  See also images and links below.
An exhibition showing the research and development of the Surrey Unearthed projects featuring maquettes, sculpture, film and drawings is at Leith Hill Place, Dorking until 22 July
See details here - Surrey Unearthed exhibition
The ten projects are as follows (click on links for more details, locations and associated events.)
Jonathan Parsons, Fossil Ocean Floor
Mary Branson, Harvest, 2018
Alison Carlier, Sounds from a Shallow Sea, 2018 (folk song research)
Leith Hill from the air
Amanda Loomes, Unearthed, 2018 (film still)
Jane Ponsford, collecting materials
Walter Bailey, Dodecahedron, 2000
Steven Edwards, From Humble Beginnings, 2018
Bryn Hallett
TheTravelling Reading Room by Amie Rai
Amie Rai, The Hillier Colour Dictionary of Trees and Shrubs, taken apart

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