GHOSTS IN THE GARDEN - ONLINE TALK
7th December, 2:00pm - 3.30pm GMT, via ZoomAn online talk with Daniel & Clara, Rachel Rose, Serena Korda and Peter Treherne – four contemporary artists reimagining myth, history and landscape.
Exploring ideas of paradise, magic, ritual, and how changes in the landscape both reflect and impact changes in the imagination and collective psyche, this event features four talks by artists grappling with narratives that have shaped the British landscape and our shifting relationships to nature.
This event was presented to accompany Daniel & Clara’s exhibition The Lost Estate at Norwich Castle, on display until January 2025.
DANIEL & CLARA
Since meeting in 2010 Daniel & Clara have dedicated themselves to a shared life of creative experimentation, working across moving image, photography, performance and mail art to explore the nature of human experience, perception and reality. Their recent projects focus on the complex relationship between humans and the natural world, particularly exploring the climate crisis as a psychological crisis.
They will speak about their current exhibition at Norwich Castle, The Lost Estate, a photographic series that explores the relationship between humans and the natural world through imagined narratives taking place in the gardens of a country estate.
RACHEL ROSE
Rachel Rose is an artist living and working in New York. Her work explores how our changing relationship to landscape has shaped storytelling and belief systems. In her films she directs our attention to sites and histories in which the sublime and the everyday blur. She translates this in her paintings, sculptures and drawings, which materially reverberate with one another, connecting the immediate to deep time.
Rose's Will-o-Wisp (2018) and Enclosure (2019) belong to a recent body of work which unfolds against the social and political backdrop of the Enclosure movement in 17th century England. Both works explore stories of a world immersed in a supernatural atmosphere, in the process of undergoing radical economic, environmental, and spiritual upheaval.
www.pilarcorrias.com/artists/rachel-rose/2
Copyright Serena Korda, "Wild Apples", photo Jesse Wilde, Commissioned by East Quay, Courtesy of Cooke Latham Gallery.SERENA KORDA
Serena Korda has a multi-media, installation-based practice that has 'world-building' at its core. Weaving together a host of influences her work channels and challenges the myths, folklore, witchcraft and magic from which she draws inspiration. Korda reviews historic narratives through a feminist lens, reworking them to create her own idiosyncratic mythology.
Her most recent exhibition Wild Apples focuses on an underrepresented subject: the older woman, whose portrayal has been a derided and largely hidden figure throughout history. Often associated with the Witch, Hag, or Crone, Serena references this history attempting to reclaim the wild women in ancient stories, and focusing on the transformative phase of menopause as a time of wisdom, and in many ways, liberation.
www.serenakorda.com
PETER TREHERNE
Peter Treherne is a moving image artist whose work gravitates around the landscape of his childhood, a village in East Sussex. That place is viewed as a palimpsest in which multiple histories and communities elide.
He is currently working on Matter of Britain, an Arthurian fantasy and an ethnographic document of an English country village. Over the course of a year, the villagers quest for the Holy Grail in order to heal their wasted land. Meanwhile, local farmers extract what they can from the land, and labour to make it fertile.
www.petertreherne.com