A series of conversations with artists from the South West group of the Royal Society of Sculptors exhibiting at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens and Gallery from 1st July to 5th August 2023, exploring themes of landscape, walking and pilgrimage and their response to these through sculpture.
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For this surprise edition to the end of the podcast series, Barbara Beyer and Mark Richards interview Doug Burton about his work for the show and approaches to making and thinking. Themes of folklore, magic, mysticism, materiality, time and place are explored.
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21 Jul 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Barbara Beyer
In this final episode of the Wander_Land Exhibition podcast, I talk with Barbara Beyer about her use of materials and the process of developing her ideas for the show. Barbara says of her work "As soon as we start moving, we encounter obstacles, sometimes almost unnotably small, often easily negotiable; where the obstacles grow, our imagination grows too. We overcome them with bridges, stairs, and ladders. Then there is another option – for routes we physically cannot take - we can send tokens: We stay and move at the same time. Where we cannot walk across the water, we skim stones, briefly touching the meniscus of the sealed water surface. Where we cannot walk the distance, the lengths, the time, we can write or draw. A traveller needs a skimming stone and a
drawing tool."
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18 Jul 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Jane Jobling
I discuss with Jane Jobling the process of making and thinking that leads to the creation of her work. Jobling's morning routine is to walk around the field because walking, is connected with looking and thinking. Jobling finds something calming and meditative about this repetition, the same field, the same path, but different every day, she is combing the landscape for evidence of change. The change in creative practice happens unexpectedly, the intervention of wasps in the studio brings about wonderment and absorption into a new creative approach.
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16 Jul 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Fiona Campbell
I discussed with Fiona Campbell her sculpture installation at Tremenheere, including 'Flags of the Forest', a series of eco-flag pieces inspired by woodlands. Campbell has used labour-intensive methods such as hand-stitching, weaving, and hand-made eco dyes to celebrate biodiversity, hopeful of nature being more cared for and thriving. Placed in the landscape near Tremenheere’s woodland and reflected in a water feature, the flags become way markers. The concept was inspired by Ursula Le Guin’s book titled ‘The Word for World is Forest’. Woods and forests provide vital ecosystems - crucial to our survival.
Above and Below is made of reclaimed, discarded and found materials collected over the years on walks, each with a story, such as plant fibres, insects, bones, pondweed and scrap steel. Some were gleaned at Tremenheere and from a recent ACE funded trip to my birthplace in Kenya. The work is a response to the entanglements of matter, rhizomatic systems and debris that make up the strata we walk on.
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14 Jul 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Anna Gillespie
Anna Gillespie’s works are a celebration of the ways in which humans have trodden the land and continue to do so. The indoor work is about linear walking – journeying, pilgrimage, purpose –whereas the outdoor work celebrates circular movement as we dance, or take part in rituals, themselves sometimes an inner pilgrimage.
In this time of climate emergency perhaps a distinction should be drawn between our literal human footsteps and our wider ‘footprint’ on the Earth collectively as a species. The act of making a footprint, of walking, is one of the least harmful things we do as humans. These works celebrate that action.
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12 Jul 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Michael Blow
Michael Blow talks to me about his journey of exploration with making his sculpture, "Mycelium connections/Please take off your shoes." The sculpture considers our relationship to the natural world and the internal force that moves through our gut to our brain and back into a wider universal natural network.
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9 Jul 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Susie Olczak
In Solidarity is a video work created collaboratively between Emma Elliott and Susie Olczak which follows on from their previous video collaboration ‘Where The Jungle Meets The Sea…The World Is Split In Two’ which was shot in Armila, Panama where Elliott and Olczak spent time together researching and experiencing living in the Darien Gap. ‘In Solidarity’ was filmed in Cornwall, in the Spring of 2023 when the artists walked parts of the St Michael’s Way together, a coast-to-coast micro-pilgrimage in the Westernmost reaches of Cornwall and shot footage at Tremenheere amongst the sub-tropical planting. The work considers the significance of walking and migration throughout human existence and its connection to survival and place. We walk to save our lives, for spiritual enlightenment, for healing and for leisure.
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7 Jul 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist William Lasdun
I discuss with William Lasdun his response to the Cornwall seascape and landscape. His work describes meandering paths and curving forms found in nature, not dissimilar to contour lines on OS maps but more tactile and three-dimensional. They’re comprised of linear elements which seek to capture the forces and cycles in the natural world and seek to resonate with features of the local physical and spiritual geography. – the meandering path of the Pilgrims’ Way, the ancient tin and bronze furnaces where metals were returned to their primordial fluid state, the old Ley lines which pass under the sea at the heart of the mount at Marazion – reaching toward an articulation of the more universal cycles of human experience and the elemental energies of life itself.
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30 Jun 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Ros Burgin
An in-depth discussion with Ros Burgin on her work for Wander_Land, 'Another Country', Ros describes it as an exploration of psycho-geography as well as mapping a physical place. The cellular clustering of the pieces draws arbitrary routes across the landscape, bound together into a new kind of fabric with cable ties; words alluding to contemporary societies' reliance on global communications networks as well as a marine measurement of distance travelled.
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23 Jun 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Seamus Moran
Seamus Moran talks to me about his long-standing connections with Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens and his ideas for Wander_Land. Moran considers the effect of walking on us and seeks to create sculptures that flip preconceived notions of memorials and memory encountered in our journey through landscape.
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16 Jun 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Rebecca Newnham
Rebecca Newnham is fascinated by the sacred waters that mark the St Michael's Way pilgrimage route. Newnham's work for the show reflects her experience of walking this path, and we discuss the use of minerals and healing, her process of making and how this engages us with her work for the show.
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9 Jun 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Kate Parsons
Kate Parsons's work for Wander_Land draws on her experiences of living and working in Africa. Parsons considers the cyclical nature of her practice drawing cross-cultural connections between our perception of life, death, religious symbolism and more. Contrasts between sculptural materials and processes are woven with her ideas and expectations for her sculpture now and in the future.
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2 Jun 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Mark Richards
Mark Richards is a sculptor who works with the traditions of the human form and its presence within contemporary society. His work, 'The Calling' for Wander_Land, is part performance and part sculpture, a pilgrimage from Oxford Street to Tremenheere. Inspired by his recollection of Stanley Green, who walked London's Oxford Street holding a placard proclaiming a protest against lust every day for 25 years, Richard's work will convey his feelings at this pivotal point that society stands.
Image credit: Bee Buckmaster
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26 May 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Ann-Margreth Bohl
Ann-Margreth Bohl is a sculptor based in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Her work for the Tremenheere Exhibition will explore the sense of presence and connection formed with a rock given to her from the St Michael's Mount causeway in Marizion, Cornwall. Bohl will return the rock when the exhibition concludes. Doing so will create a circularity in her creative process and the spiritual connection formed.
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19 May 2023
Wander_Land conversation with artist Alistair Lambert
Alistair Lambert is an artist based in the South-West and a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. He is working on an external installation for the exhibition that will introduce ideas around landscape, architecture and the fragile nature of the slate material he is using.
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