Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Podcast

Episode 6 of our podcast features a discussion between artist Tom Baskeyfield and writer Josh Allen. Tom's works on paper, depicting local stones floating on a black plane, are currently on display in our In Steps of Sundew exhibition. As you'll hear in this discussion, stone is both emblem and starting point for much larger issues and ideas. We begin with a pebble in the hand of a rambler and travel through issues of mindfulness, theology, human vs geological time, nationalism, and home. Tom has provided a wealth of supplementary material for this discussion. Visit the link for images, a full bibliography of works sited during this discussion, and a short film, as well as a full transcript of this podcast episode. http://fermynwoods.org/fermynwoods-podcast-episode-6--tom-baskeyfield/

For our fifth episode of the Fermynwoods Podcast, we focus on our Alternative Provision programme with students from The CE Academy. Artist and musician Rebecca Lee has created her sound piece You Can Hear The Wind entirely from recordings made by students. Rebecca Lee is a musician and sound practitioner producing performance, sound works, projects and publications with a particular focus on music and narrative and collaboration. She often works long term in relation to specific site and places, draws on written forms and uses improvisation, scores and DIY approaches to combine period and contemporary materials and processes. She moves between public off-site or project-based work, traditional arts venues and DIY music spaces. Rebecca performs as Bredbeddle, makes improvised music with Marie Thompson and is part of Primary Music group. More on this episode at our website here: http://fermynwoods.org/fermynwoods-podcast-episode-5-rebecca-lee/ Rebecca Lee's website: http://www.rebeccalee.info/ And her SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/rebeccarecordssounds

The fourth instalment of our podcast is an original sound work in response to our Triple Harvest callout by London-based artist, collaborator and researcher Anja Borowicz. Before transitioning to art, Anja studied industrial engineering - an experience which instilled an enduring affinity for industrial landscapes, diagrammatic instructions and thinking across taxonomies. This made her response to our Corby steel industry heritage films particularly insightful. Her work "extracted : crashed : smelted" finds the music and humanity in the sounds of an industry populated by large metal monsters. More from Anja Borowicz on this sound piece at http://fermynwoods.org/fermynwoods-podcast-episode-4-anja-borowicz/ To watch the seven films made by artists as part of our Triple Harvest project visit http://fermynwoods.org/triple-harvest-films

Artist, writer and researcher Leyla Pillai takes us on a guided tour of a fictionalised truth in episode three of the Fermynwoods Podcast. Building on episode two's exploration of Pleasure Garden, this new audio work is rooted in the imagined space of Deene Park and begins a contemplation and lure into its external grounds. A stream of consciousness style of spoken word, considering the garden as an acoustic sound mirror. An accompanying text and images by Leyla are available at our website here: http://fermynwoods.org/fermynwoods-podcast-episode-3---leyla-pillai/ You can listen to the archives of Who'sThat Girl w/ Leyla Pillai here: https://www.nts.live/shows/whos-that-girl

This episode of the Fermynwoods Podcast is an audio essay by writer and curator Amy Lay-Pettifer addressing our current state of collective pause. The audio work encapsulates her experience of curating Pleasure Garden, an exhibition meant to open early May 2020 at Deene Park and includes discussion with and contributions by Pleasure Garden artists Alice Channer and Bethan Lloyd Worthington, as well as interjections by artist Harriet Plewis. Images, references and a transcript for this podcast are available at http://fermynwoods.org/fermynwoods-podcast-episode-2/

Our first podcast episode is a talk between Fermynwoods Assistant Director Jessica Harby and Sarah Gillett, an artist and writer investigating the life of things across space and time, as well as across media. Sarah has been commissioned to produce work over two years and multiple sites as part of our programme In Steps of Sundew. In this talk, she discusses the inspiration provided by the grounds, archives and staff at Rockingham Castle, research on how astronauts dream, the promise of future seances, and the joy of collaboration. This episode features clips from her sound work "Well Well" as well as a presentation of another work in its entirety, the hypnotic "Black Night". For more information on this podcast, including images mentioned in the episode, visit http://fermynwoods.org/fermynwoods-podcast-episode-1---sarah-gillett