Land Art Pod: Conversations with Creatives connects and engages with creatives who embody regenerative ways of making and living. Through these conversations, we strengthen our collective capacity to heal, to imagine, and to kindle new ways of being in partnership with Land, Sea, and Sky. Dedicated to nurturing bonds between people and the planet, Land Art Pod offers sonic musings on the nature of creativity—a space to gently nourish, restore, and inspire through dialogue. This project is produced by Land Art Collective, curated by Elizabeth Gleave and Morgan Kulas, and hosted by (myself) Morgan Kulas. Our theme music is composed by Jacob Stanley and Hannah Belle; the song is titled Warmth from Within. If you enjoy what you hear, please consider leaving a five-star review.
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Morgan Kulas, Elizabeth Gleave, & Land Art Collective
DAWN HURTON ON HER FICTIONAL MUSEUM IN RURAL CUMBRIA
Dawn Hurton is a contemporary sculptor based in Dufton, Cumbria, in the North Pennines. Working with rag pulp, plant fibre, pony hair, barytes and earth pigments, her practice explores the relationships between people, labour and the land. Her current project, The Dufton Hoarde, is an artist-made Museum of Rural Memory rooted in the lead-mining villages and worked landscape surrounding her home. Combining sculpture, text, moving image and invented museum records, it asks what counts as evidence, how stories acquire authority, and what remains when accumulated knowledge of place is no longer carried forward.
You can learn more about Dawn at her website www.dawnhurton.com and on Instagram @dawnhurtonartist
25 Oct 2026
RIMA STAINES ON PAINTING THE REALMS OF MYTH, MAGIC, AND FOLKLORE
Rima Staines is an artist whose work straddles myth, magical realism and the folk arts. Her work explores the edges of culture and consciousness in media from painting, music, writing, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, to clock making, mask making, theatre, puppetry, book arts and animation.
Rima’s visual world is steeped in melancholy, story-rich and alchemical. Her detailed paintings are often made with oils on found wood - icons rooted in animism that feel simultaneously both strange and familiar.
She has a long-held fascination with the idea of the liminal - the edges and hedges, the boundaries between one place and another, both metaphorical and real - and with the power of art that comes from that place. Her work is a kind of “Iconography of the Otherworld”.
Her paintings have been exhibited and published internationally and hang in many private collections worldwide. She was co-founder and co-director of the Hedgespoken travelling storytelling theatre and small press. In 2018 she was a finalist in the Best Artist category of the World Fantasy Awards. She is a mother to two young sons and lives and works in South Devon halfway between the moor and the sea.
You can connect with Rima at https://rimastaines.com and on Instagram @tilsamka
25 Oct 2026
AHMAD NABIL ON IMAGINATION AND DOCUMENTING PARANORMALS IN PALESTINE
Ahmad Nabil is a Palestinian, Jerusalem-based visual artist, researcher, and educator whose practice explores folklore, storytelling, ritual, and the paranormal as forms of intangible Palestinian heritage, with a particular interest in their connection to the natural world. His work traces how myths, superstitions, and inherited stories continue to resonate in the present, carrying memory, imagination, and belonging across generations. In 2015, he founded The Fiction Council in Jerusalem, a platform that celebrates Palestinian imagination through research into Arab and Islamic mythology, folklore, superstitions, and paranormal phenomena, and their reactivation through contemporary art. He is the author and illustrator of Hidden Companions: Paranormals from the Old City of Jerusalem.
You can connect with Ahmad on Instagram @djinnabad and through The Fiction Council @the_fictioncouncil
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