ENTWINED

Rural Land Lives Art

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Paperback, 180 pages

English language

Published by Art Editions North.

ISBN:
978-1-906832-47-6
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'ENTWINED: Rural. Land. Lives. Art.' Was a multi-partner project, organised by VARC (Visual Arts st Rural Communities). It comprised six mixed-length residencies and associated artist projects. Each artist's practice explored different aspects of what makes a 'place', revealing the interconnectedness of rural land and rural lives.

This book documents the project.

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Entangled voices

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I feel a little strange writing a review for a book that my work is also published in, and where I know many of the authors, so I will just write a few thoughts. This compendium of entwined essays about art in the rural landscape is brilliantly put together, with sharp images accompanying thoughts by artists, academics and writers about the 4-year project ENTWINED. Writing includes essays about the idea of the 'rural' in Japanese and English art, how colonialism influences rural art, what birds can teach us about walking and the folly of borders. I am biased, but I tried to read this just for the joy of reading and through that I really enjoyed the writing and ideas, and the artworks that are printed as part of the entwined story.