What in particular do you find interesting about the Neroche landscape at this point in the project?
This is a landscape that holds its own stories…all that I experience on Neroche at first glance seems natural and wild but the truth is much more intriguing. The interweaving of human, rock, plants and wildlife have created a landscape that whispers and dances with stories and delight. There is always another layer to discover.
In what way has this project affected your personal artistic practice so far?
The Neroche scheme has been a fantastic opportunity to research and develop the telling of Somerset and local stories…a new departure for me. I really love the idea of telling our stories form our land, very few word miles! Some times it feels as though, as a culture we diminish “Englishness” but it is not all bad. We have great traditions and strange and curious folk beliefs, many of which have nearly disappeared. To scratch at the surface and rediscover some of these is a way of really connecting to the land and the people that have inhabited it before us.
