Exhibitions 2021
BEING WITH TREES
January 2021
BERMONDSEY PROJECT SPACE
183 - 185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3U4
BEING WITH TREES brings together a contemporary response to trees by artists who live in urban and rural environments. These painters and printmakers are associated with two contemporary organisations: The Arborealists, which includes artists from the South West, South East, Yorkshire, London and Wales, France and Ireland, and the Urban Contemporaries, whose artists live in London.
BEING WITH TREES celebrates their shared love of trees and the vital role they can play in all our lives, in terms of our Well-Being, Identity and Sociability, and our understanding of Ecology and Climatic Change.
S A N C T U A R Y 29th September - 5th November
Shaftesbury Arts Centre, 13, Bell Street, Shaftesbury. SP7 8AR
Painting - Rachel Sargent Poetry - Catherine Simmonds
A reflection on our own personal search for places of sanctuary
Always the same
impossible attempt
to hear a place’s own voice -
a hidden world's
creatures shifting
in the leaves
the sunken lane
the badger setts
crumbling walls, moss,
water’s runnel
the drovers’ holly cut out
for the power lines
so foxgloves
and strange flowers
I cannot place
rise up to replace the
shuttered dark.