Tom Morton (Arc) and Becky Little (Rebearth) join the team of Creative Collaborative Placement artists. They will be working in Scotland, liaising initially with specialists at the James Hutton Institute, with an enquiry focused on soil.
Read on for more about the artists, and their placement focus.
Rebearth / ARC
“We are excited about the LUNZ project because it brings together two different lenses on nature and modern life – the perspective of scientific and artistic practice. How these combine to reimage our relationship with earth is a journey of exploration, as is the opportunity to work alongside other artists and earth stakeholders.“
Becky and Tom’s collaboration as artist-builder and architect is grounded in decades of working with earth – in construction, heritage, research, and art. Through this, their practice has become one of listening: to the voices of land, water, and soil, and to the relationships that bind them to human making.
Becky and Tom work where materials, places, and people meet – exploring how earth is shaped by culture and at the same time shapes it. Whether through building, sculpture, or collective enquiry, they seek ways of attending to living matter as collaborator and teacher. Their projects bring together creative, architectural, and scientific perspectives to question extractive systems and reimagine more reciprocal ways of working with the ground beneath us. Rooted in ideas of assemblage and Rights of Nature, their practice aims to give soil and more-than-human beings a place in the conversation about our shared future.
To find out more, visit the websites: Becky Little (Rebearth) and Tom Morton (Arc Architects).
Scotland Focus: the earth beneath our feet – understanding, regenerating, connecting
The placement in Scotland is an invtation to delve into the realm of soil: how soil ‘health’ is understood, approaches to building healthy soils, and forging a deeper and stronger sense of connection to soil.
Becky and Tom will begin by meeting specialists from James Hutton Institute, which hosts the National Soil Archive for Scotland and has a team of researchers with interests in soil, peat and agroecology. It is also home to the International Land Use Study Centre.
Becky and Tom begin with questions, including: What would the soil say? As their research gets under way, they will develop a programme of meetings and fieldwork to inform the work they produce – keep an eye out for news of what emerges.
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