Happenings

Riot, recycled materials inc. ocean litter. Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve. Photo Barbara Beyer

My piece Riot is now installed on the rocks at Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve, as part of One Island - Many Visions.. We had a lovely and very successful opening Private View last weekend. See full description of Riot here, including what3words location. (Entrances – Memory Stones, Priory Corner DT5 2EN and Tradecroft – Wide Street DT5 2LN. Free Parking Tout Quarry carpark & Heights Hotel.)

I’ll be activating Riot as an intervention, in collaboration with Melanie Thompson this Sunday 14 Sept, 2pm at its site. It will be more of a happening than performance. Do come if you can. We will be there no matter the weather! Bring a brolly ;-)

I’ll be leading an Eco Sculpture Workshop on Friday 10 October 2-4.30pm, Drill Hall, (Easton Lane, Portland DT5 1BW). Book: fionacampbell-art@sky.com. I’ll also be taking part in an Artists- in-Conversation, Sunday 19 October 2pm with Ros Burgin, Nicola Turner, Rebecca Newnham, Kate Parson, Hannah Sofaer, chaired by Freeny Yianni (Close Ltd). Save the date! For further info see @oneislandmanyvisions.

Riot. Photos above by Barbara Beyer

Me with Riot. Photo Seamus Moran

Me with Madi Acharya Baskerville. Photo Barbara Beyer

My installation Threads of LIght is still in the making.  It will be sited in The Chapter House, Wells Cathedral for Wells Art Contemporary. The exhibition will run from Wed 8 Oct - Sat 1 Nov. Private View 9 October, 7pm.

Sack (shortlisted for the Cass Art Prize 2025) will be on exhibiton at Copeland Gallery, Unit 9, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, London SE15 3SN, Fri 24 Oct – Sat 1 Nov.

Exciting weeks ahead! I hope you can visit some of these events.

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A huge heartfelt thank you to those who’ve donated towards my shed and performance work: Caroline Driscoll, Hanne Castein, Angela Morley, Claire Alves, Julia Middleton, Victoria Grinter. Greetings Cards will be winging their way to you soon! My shed is being incredibly useful already to store my work for WAC (see pics above).

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Above and Below, exhibition invite, workshops

Really enjoying my residency in the empty shop in Shepton Mallet - Create@#8. It’s been liberating to spread out in a huge space, view my work as a collection, and get absorbed in making. I’m using the residency to develop work as part of my Arts Council England ‘Developing Your Creative Practice Award’. Ongoing work will be shown in a solo exhibition 11-19 March. Come to the Opening Event on Sat 11 March, 2-4pm! There’ll be a soundscape in response to works by Ushara Dilrukshan. Open Mon-Sat 11am-4pm.

I’m making a sculpture Above and Below - a response to the entanglements of matter, rhizomic systems and debris that make up the strata we walk on.  All are continuously transforming in a process of becoming, ‘..frothing and tangling and fusing.. layering and layering and layering… millions of fungal skeins suspended.. a gossamer web at least as intricate as the cables.. that hang beneath our cities..,’ (Merlin Sheldrake).

Linear uprights extrude through layered substrates - a mass of interwoven lines. It’s made from reclaimed/discarded materials and objects sourced from different places, each with a story, including steel, copper, plant fibres/roots/debris, twine, wire, wool, rope, feathers, rusted paper.. Life above and below; ‘as above, so below..’ I’ve since learnt Freud took this line ‘Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo’ to describe the currents of psychological underland that rush beneath our sunlit uplands of conscious mind, here and there surging up…

The work will be exhibited at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens this summer together with my outdoor Flag pieces. I’ll be showing alongside 30 Royal Society of Sculptors - see here for more about our Wander_Land exhibition.

I’ve been spending many hours hammering and ‘stitching’ bottle tops together with fine copper wire. They’re being added in blocks are to a handwoven backing I previously made for another project (Chelsea Flower Show) - now being reused and transformed for my Flags of the Forest. Layers of translucent netting and fabric will be added. The original design references endangered species across the globe. There will eventually be several eco flags that stand together. The flags will be made from a range of found and reclaimed materials stitched together, representing bio-diversity, making do, hopeful of nature being more cared for, and thriving. The work was inspired by walks in woodlands and a phrase ‘the word for world is forest’ (Ursula Le Guin). Woods and forests provide vital ecosystems.

My giant snowdrop sculptures (made from discarded materials including plastic, wire and tent fabric) were installed in Shepton Mallet for the Snowdrop Festival until 20 February. It was lovely to see people engaging with them as we put them up outside the Baptist Church. One of Shepton Mallet’s annual highlights, the festival events had a massive attendance through the week.

Next week I’ll be running a free one-day art and creative writing workshop with Polly Hall. Join us to create a suspended artwork for Shepton Mallet library window featuring Market Cross. We’ll delve into the history of this iconic landmark, create written responses and drawing on textiles with botanical dyes. Supported by Shepton Mallet Town Council, part of their Winter Series. Friday 3 March, 10am-4pm. Shepton Mallet Library, 2 Market Place BA4 5AZ. Book: eventbrite

I’ll also be running an Eco Sculpture Workshop on Saturday, 18 March, 2-4pm. Create@#8, Shepton Mallet BA4 5BG. Book: eventbrite

Great to be showing Entangled VI in Darkness to Hope exhibition, Atkinson Gallery, 27 Feb - 30 March.

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Hope to see you at the Opening Event!