EXHIBITION DATES : In person and online from 18/7 – 29/8
INTRODUCTION :
“The man and the beast are one cloth.”
Here - where memory is held in stone and sea and whispered on the wind—stories were once told of the animals who moved between worlds. These myths reflected our deeper relationship - of an inherent knowing kinship or oneness with all living beings. In ‘Cad Goddeau’, the 6th Century Welsh poet Taliesin wrote “I have been a stag, a salmon in a pool, a dog, a roebuck on the mountain... I have been all these things.” This sentiment is shared across time and cultures, from the Siberian taiga to the distant Australian desert where shamans, elders, and healers have and continue to speak, although in decreasing number, of the same truth: Animals are not “other.”
Bonaparte the Pig may well be right when he claimed in Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ that "Four legs good, two legs bad.” Today, in the shadow of ecological collapse, a murmur of so called 'older ways' should perhaps be heard louder than ever. Our Earth is burning, drowning, breaking under weight of progress. Species vanish daily. And behind every extinction is a broken relationship. Science now supports what ancient teachings have always held: That we are not separate from the Earth. We are participants in a shared system - body, breath, and being. This is not poetic concept, It is scientific imperative. Earth is undergoing a sixth mass extinction, driven by habitat loss, climate change, and industrial exploitation. Since 1970, global wildlife populations have declined by 69% on average. These losses are not isolated. When a species disappears, it tears holes in our ecosystems—and in ourselves.
This exhibition will invite you to listen to the animal, and to see something inside yourself. To remember that the wolf, the whale, the bird, and the human all breathe the same air.
“We are not separate spirits. We are one spirit walking in many bodies”
The exhibition includes artworks by (In alphabetical order) : Sam Bassett, Paul Benney, Jim Carter, Kate Clark, Judith Nangala Crispin, Claire Curneen, Lena Dabska, Tessa Farmer, Miles Cleveland Goodwin, Andrew Hardwick, Andrew Litten, Antony Micaleff, Jamie Mills, Tom Pether, Dr Martin Shaw, Oleksii Shcherbak, Kate Walters, David Kim Whittaker, Joy Wolfenden Brown, Faye Eleanor Woods