Reading Landscapes brings together three practitioners whose work is grounded in close observation of land, materials and place. This conversation focuses on how landscapes can be read through making, craft and artistic research. The speakers discuss walking, working with natural materials, learning traditional land skills and paying attention to how history, ecology and human activity shape the environments we move through.
Heather Bird Harris is a visual artist, educator and independent curator whose work explores connections between ancestral histories, land and ecological transitions. She collaborates with communities, scientists and ecological researchers to examine how landscape, history, memory and environment intersect.
Joseph Orpen is a traditionally trained rural craftsman based in the UK who specialises in field boundary crafts such as hedgelaying and dry stone work. He practices traditional land-based skills across Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and beyond, working with regional styles of hedge and wall construction that support landscape maintenance and rural craft heritage.
Avery Gregory’s practice involves collecting and curating found stones and natural materials into carefully considered assemblages that reflect both the permanence of material and the impermanence of form.
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delve in to a collection of 5 talks
Get anytime access to Part One of our Conversations with Creatives series: Awakening Wonder • Reading Landscapes • Reinterpreting Waste • Sensory Storytelling • Visual Alchemy
Get anytime access to Part Two of our Conversations with Creatives series: Active Earth • Elevated Perspectives • Material Worlds • Nature Palettes • Seeing Beyond the Human
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