If Not Now Film, Daksha Patel
As one of the LUNZ Hub Creative Collaborative Placement Artists engaging with questions around land use, Daksha Patel has created the film ‘If Not Now’. In this blog, Daksha shares the film and her process.
Ocean Songs – Colin Riley
Ocean Songs is a new kind of album. Described as ‘docu-pop’, it is a blend of science data, soundscapes and song, exploring human relationships with the ocean. Colin Riley talks about process and performance with Sonic Collaborations.
CCP Artist Daksha Patel, Insights from Dartmoor
Daksha Patel shares insights from her visit to Challacombe Farm, Dartmoor, as part of her LUNZ Hub Creative Collaborative Placement.
CCP: Poet at Work in Northern Ireland
Kate Arthur, Northern Ireland poet and CCP artist with the UK’s LUNZ Hub, writes about her recent meeting with agricultural professional and farmer, Professor John Gilliland in Northern Ireland.
CCP: Daksha Patel at Rothamsted Research
Daksha Patel discusses her visit to Rothamsted Reseach, North Wyke, as she begins her enquiry into agroecosystem transitions. Daksha is one of the CCP Placements with the LUNZ Hub.
CCP Scotland Artists – Arc/Rebearth
Tom Morton and Becky Little will be working in Scotland through the LUNZ Hub Creative Collaborative Placement project – they’ll be liaising with the James Hutton Institute, with a focus on soil.
CCP WALES Artist – JACQUI SYMONS
Jacqui Symons is working alongside CEH (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) through her Wales-based Creative Collaborative Placement, coordinated by the PLACE Collective and the UK’s Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People Hub.
CCP northern ireland Artist – kate Caoimhe Arthur
Poet Kate Caoimhe Arthur will be working in Northern Ireland on the Creative Collaborative Placement project coordinated by the PLACE Collective and the UK’s Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People Hub.
CCP England Artist – Daksha Patel
Daksha Patel joins the team of artists with the Creative Collaborative Placement project coordinated by the PLACE Collective and the UK’s Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People Hub.
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! Artists Selected for LUNZ Hub PLACEMENTS
Delighted to announce the appointment of artists undertaking Creative Collaborative Placements with specialists from the UK’s LUNZ Hub (Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People Hub).
CALL FOR ARTISTS
Excited to announce an open call for artists based in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to apply to join the Creative Collaborative Placement programme, which we’re running with the UK LUNZ Hub.
REFLECTIONS ON THE PLACE COLLECTIVE MEMBERS GATHERING – Kate Gilman Brundrett
Artist Kate Brundrett reflects on the gathering of PLACE Collective members that took place when the See Here Now exhibition launched in Grizedale Forest: a blend of workshops, discussions, movement sessions and inspiration.
Resonance Birch Circles – the plantings
Planting the Resonance circles: rings of seven silver birch in locations across the Lake District National Park, in the co-creation of a living, 100-year sculpture.
Becky Nunes in See Here Now
Becky Nunes discusses her work for the PLACE Collective’s See Here Now exhibition: Yggdrasil and 100 Years Per Inch
Small Water – Anne Waggot Knott
Anne Waggot Knott follows the journey of water from Cumbria’s Haweswater Reservoir to Manchester, where it nourishes city residents – but few know it. Her artwork ‘Small Water’ in the PLACE Collective exhibition offers a reframing of dependence on, and commodification of water and nature.
Ghost Trees – Richard Gilbert
This blog explores ‘Ghost Trees’ , the ongoing multidisciplinary project led by Richard Gilbert with Sara-Jane Arbury and Paul Ligas comprised of an art walk and exhibition of original drawings, photography, and poetry. ‘The Seventh Ghost’ charcoal drawing and its accompanying poem are included in the See Here Now exhibition in Grizedale Forest.
Review of ‘See Here Now’, in Ecoartscotland
‘See Here Now’ exhibition is reviewed by Dave Pritchard in ecoartscotland.
Celebrating our Native Black Poplar – Richard Bavin
Richard Bavin’s mixed media portraits of native Black Poplars celebarte this threatened species. Three of these drawings are included in the See Here Now exhibition in Grizedale Forest, capturing the individuality of each tree and the relationship Bavin has built through the process of drawing them.
Ali Foxon – Put Down Your Phone / Pick Up a Pencil
Ali Foxon shares work from her Green Sketching Handbook in the See Here Now exhibition: ‘before and after’ images, expressing the power of sketching in noticing, and caring for, the natural world.
Kate Foster – INSPIRED BY PEAT
Kate Foster shares the background to her peat-inspired work showing in the See Here Now exhibition, April-June 2025.
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