Hebridean Dreams

Work in Progress: elegaic multi-disciplinary project: book, film & installation

In parallel to my creative work I have been a nature-friendly farmer in Cornwall and the Outer Hebrides. 

Whilst working on the land, I have created a body of work in response to those experiences:

poems, stories, drawings, paintings, photographs, video. 

I have also collected artefacts – skulls, hides, feathers, fur, bones, horns – derived from the farming. 

These elements are the starting point. 

It’s about:

the quest to build a home

dreams that become nightmares and are re-made

love and loss

life-death-life cycles

and a connection to the land and livestock

living and working with native animals and trees

that keeps you going meanwhile.

R&D supported by a Support for Ambition Award from ArtsD&G

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