Artist : Jim Carter
Title : Spring Calf Scried From Heathen Fire
Medium : hare skull, muntjac deer pelvis; hedgehog, deer, cow & buzzard bone; finch, jackdaw & buzzard
feathers; oak branches, birch, root, leaves, snail shells, soil, brook water, straw, clay, willow
herb, bracken, ash, iron from a hay rake, stones, beech nut husks, wool; cow marks
Dimensions : 30 x 76 cm


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Often uneasy or tragic, irrational or other, Jim Carter’s work is linked to a real world of suffering and transcendence: making sculpture from organic materials as a means of advocacy, atonement or commemoration; shifting to story and the written word as a way to enter emotional and numinous spaces of memory and dream. What appears on the surface to be a wilful disturbance of the remains of organic life in order to fulfil a creative compulsion is intended to be part of a transforming and re-sanctifying process. Taken materials are reconfigured into new forms to express complex feelings of grief and loss, love and devotion, fertility and renewal. Fundamental in this work is a conviction in an irrepressible spirit for regeneration in the world, an imperishable flame that rises most clearly in landscape and the magic and otherness of animals.

Carter was born in Worcestershire in 1967. He received an MA with distinction in Art and Environment from Falmouth University and an MSc Award in Ecopsychology from the Centre For Human Ecology, Edinburgh. His work has appeared in Dark Mountain, Unpsychology and Earthlines magazine.