Reading to trees on the East Devon Way

Burned Trees - Woodbury (video still) | Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver | 2018

I've been invited to create a number of public engagement activities to celebrate 25 years of the East Devon Way, a 40-mile walking route between Exmouth and Lyme Regis that runs through the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB)

Read (to) the trees is an extension of work originally made for Organic Arts -  Return by 24/09/17 - and later revisited with Megan Calver as part of Fatal Exchanges. I will be inviting the public to get to know the local trees by reading aloud to them and observing how they respond.

And in a new iteration, Turn (the) leaves, Megan Calver and I will bring together a group of people and trees for simultaneous shared reading and response. Working from a simple set of instructions, they will be part of a new, temporary work of art made by reading aloud. We'll then present a version of this work at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, in the autumn.

Art on the East Devon Way artists include Anne-Marie Culhane, Justin Quinnell, Jenny Mellings and Tony Whitehead.

Art on the East Devon Way activity map, various locations May - September 2018.

Art on the East Devon Way exhibition, 8 September - 27 October 2018, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon EX14 1LX.