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Tobacco and Feathers… The Art of Looking
Conversation 8 November and 15 November online: Lauren Working and Lucy Powell discuss art, literature, and colonialism with art historian Stephanie Pratt, chaired by Alexandra Harris.
Arts of the Air: an Evening at The Exchange
Join us at The Exchange in Birmingham on 8 December for an evening of readings celebrating ‘The Air we Breath’.
Julie Brook: Arts of Place Artist-in-Residence
We welcome land artist Julie Brook for a summer residency at Arts of Place.
Practical drawing with Julie Brook
On 23 June we held a drawing workshop with Julie Brook. Here’s a taste of some of the results.
William Cowper, Art and Afterlife
A two-day seminar on William Cowper’s poetry, organized by Arts of Place members.
The Lives of Naturalists
Weinrebe Lecture: Richard Mabey on Gilbert White of Selborne
Edward Thomas: Out of Place
Conversation: Andrew Hodgson and Ralph Pite consider the radical strangeness of Thomas’s writing
Dereliction and Healing among Coal Spoils
Essay: Michael Malay reflects on the hidden ecosystems that thrive on the sites of disused collieries.
A Street in a Global Pandemic
Gallery: Photographer Martin Stott has been capturing images from lockdown life.
A Month in the Country
Re-reading: Hermione Lee returns to J.L. Carr’s classic novel
A World on the Table: Still Life Paintings and their Global Stories
Conversation: Lauren Working and Lucy Powell bring questions of taste, trade and globalism to bear on scenes of feasting and beauty.
Difficult Paradises
Conversation: Tim Dee, Michael Malay, and Liam Olds ask what beauty means in the context of ecological renewal.
Wordsworth’s art of place
Essay: In the year of Wordsworth’s 250th birthday, Jessica Fay explores the contemplative stories he tells about ruins.
Explore the travels of objects at TIDEfest
Workshop 31 July: Explore migration and cultural memory through objects that cross borders.
Literature for quiet times
Podcast: Alexandra Harris talks to Kate McLoughlin about William Cowper’s great poem of quiet home life, The Task.