Grounded
New grounded walk announced! Details below.
Grounded offers artists opportunities to respond to both the Earth, their experience of walking the Earth, and their faith response. The project will be based on a series of regional walks, whether an afternoon parkland stroll, or a longer three day hike, or a contemplative labyrinth walk. Starting with the act of walking, then grounding that experience with processes using the earth, stones and leaf litter we’ve encountered. Artists will be invited to return to their own studio to consider our relationship to the Earth, to wilderness, or our urban place and create artworks in response. Exhibition opportunities will develop out of these explorations in regional centres.
Contact Christina Rowntree to express interest in this exciting project.
Genuine art, we might say, is simply human creation that does not stifle the nonhuman element but rather, allows whatever is ‘Other’ in the materials to continue to live and breathe. Genuine artistry, in this sense, does not impose a wholly external form upon some ‘inert’ matter, but rather allows the form to emerge from the reciprocity between the artist and materials, whether these materials be stones, or pigments or spoken words. Thus understood, art is really a cooperative endeavour, a work of co-creation in which the dynamism and power of earthborn materials is honoured and respected. In return for this respect, these materials contribute their more-than-human resonances to human culture.
Abram, D. (1996) The Spell of the Sensuous, Vintage p 278
Saturday 15 October 2011
More information: http://ctm.uca.edu.au/events/groundedmtpilotchiltern
