Words | Jennyarran

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AT THE SWEET SHOP

The Sweet shop is a window exhibition space in Lewes, showing work of artists and writers. Some of my pieces from the recent show...

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Talking to Trees

It's about an hour's walk to the Ash Tree on the Downs. Its branches are perfect for sitting and thinking. There is a kind of reciprocal...

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Axe Marks -

I had to explain recently about how I started using an axe in my work. I was making sculptural paintings at the time on blocks of rough...

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Listening -

reciprocal encounters with an animate world. I've been thinking about 'conversation' and 'being relational' lately and engaging in...

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The Space Between -

drum beats, silence and drawing I've been thinking about the spaces between drum beats - the silence as much as the sound. How to make...

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Landscape as Language -

a sensory, emotional topography and landscape as language. I had to write something about my work for an exhibition, my 'statement' gets...

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Relational viewing -

a call to the creativity and daring of the viewer. A challenge to be more and differently engaged - to demand more of the relationship....

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plates and fairytales

Power and awakening. Psyche, stories, language, in the landscape of the owl service Internet meandering through the wonders of The Dark...

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Words and pictures -

poetry, sculpture and the poetics of space. Someone asked me today about my work, my poem. I explained about always having written - it...

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Walking practice -

landscape can exist as a reflection on the inner walls of the mind, or as a projection of the inner state without... Undertaken without...

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Off by Heart

Reading Jay Griffith's passionate, poetic book, 'Kith the riddle of the Childscape'. Thinking about early childhood influences on my...

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Small Things

Homeschool, tree climbing and John Tradescant. In 2015 I home schooled my son. We set of joyfully like travellers without a map, into...

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A handful of occasional thoughts to do with inspiration and creative practice...