Earthbound: A fascination with what lies beneath our feet.
Earthbound:
Groundworks as part of the Sit Festival
‘The artist enters a specific state of mind when he is walking, enabling a creative space to appear. There is a reduction in conscious attention, a letting go, and the mind is able to slip into a different gear.’
(On The Track of Richard Long – Juliet Miller)
Artist/papermaker Jane Ponsford https://janeponsfordstudio.com and ceramicist/curator Kim Norton, explore the similarities and differences in their approach to working with landscape and place. Both Jane and Kim work with materials collected or foraged from different environments to explore materiality and their site-specific creative responses.
They have been engaged for nine months in a collaborative exchange project titled Earthbound. This involved each sending a series of parcels of collected and made objects, to which the other would respond. The only rule was that they work within the A6 paper format.
Follow the ongoing conversation on the Groundworks website: http://groundworks.org.uk/wp/earthbound/
All work will be shown at Three Storeys Gallery in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire from 17th - 27th June 2021 along with an illustrated in-conversation event on Sat 26th June .
The selection of images give an insight into the five exchanges made by Kim and sent to Jane.
Exchange number1: London Clay - Beckenham Park Place
Exchange number2: Chalk - Uffington white horse, Oxfordshire
Exchange number3: Apple wood - Nunhead, London
Exchange number4: Soils and Shale - West Somerset
Exchange number5: London Clay and wood - Catford, London
