ENAS proposal
We are both interested in the relationship that humans have had with the forest over time, how we have used, manipulated and changed it for different purposes and how this has tried to be regulated, and also how it has/hasn’t benefited the community. Inspired by the spirit of the people who live and lived in the Forest and shaped its history and ecology we intend to create a walking route around the Forest, creating interventions and documentation, working from Loughton Arts Centre during April 2015 where we can research, talk to visitors and have a lab-like environment.
We will take our starting point from John Clare, the 19th century “Peasant Poet” who was a resident in Dr Matthew Allen’s private asylum at High Beach and walked from there back home in Northborough. Clare lamented the destruction of the Forest due to the Industrial Revolution and through Enclosures which prevented commoner’s rights. In 1878 the Epping Forest Act was passed and Queen Victoria declared, “It gives me the greatest satisfaction to dedicate this beautiful forest to the use and enjoyment of my people for all time," the enclosure’s fences were removed and commoner’s rights restored and it became “The People’s Forest.” Our walk of the Forest exercises the right to freedom of the land.
We are both interested in the relationship that humans have had with the forest over time, how we have used, manipulated and changed it for different purposes and how this has tried to be regulated, and also how it has/hasn’t benefited the community. Inspired by the spirit of the people who live and lived in the Forest and shaped its history and ecology we intend to create a walking route around the Forest, creating interventions and documentation, working from Loughton Arts Centre during April 2015 where we can research, talk to visitors and have a lab-like environment.
We will take our starting point from John Clare, the 19th century “Peasant Poet” who was a resident in Dr Matthew Allen’s private asylum at High Beach and walked from there back home in Northborough. Clare lamented the destruction of the Forest due to the Industrial Revolution and through Enclosures which prevented commoner’s rights. In 1878 the Epping Forest Act was passed and Queen Victoria declared, “It gives me the greatest satisfaction to dedicate this beautiful forest to the use and enjoyment of my people for all time," the enclosure’s fences were removed and commoner’s rights restored and it became “The People’s Forest.” Our walk of the Forest exercises the right to freedom of the land.
Cara Flynn
Cara’s artistic practice focuses on the site-specific with particular interest in the interaction between people and place. Her public sculptures and interventions aim to interrupt and transform the everyday, creating a new meaning and way to interpret surroundings.
Taking inspiration from the area she is working in and the people inhabiting it or experiencing those spaces has led to her work spanning a world full of materials, techniques and mediums. She specialises in working with Architects, Developers, Local Councils and Museum and Heritage institutions to develop participatory art projects.
www.carajeanflynn.com
Hannah Stageman
Hannah Stageman builds upon a long history of art and nature, looking at nature as culture and the dividing line between them. Concentrating her practice on drawing and its contemporary concerns, she uses it to help her explore her chosen subject of nature, the natural sciences and social history.
Ideas of evolution; botany; taxonomy and collecting/collections; palaeontology; geography; maps; walking; social history; folklore and mythologies; landscape/wilderness; memory; and all their associations and allusions to place interest and influence Hannah, as well as the everyday affect the natural world has on our lives, however insignificant it may seem.
www.hannahstageman.com
Cara’s artistic practice focuses on the site-specific with particular interest in the interaction between people and place. Her public sculptures and interventions aim to interrupt and transform the everyday, creating a new meaning and way to interpret surroundings.
Taking inspiration from the area she is working in and the people inhabiting it or experiencing those spaces has led to her work spanning a world full of materials, techniques and mediums. She specialises in working with Architects, Developers, Local Councils and Museum and Heritage institutions to develop participatory art projects.
www.carajeanflynn.com
Hannah Stageman
Hannah Stageman builds upon a long history of art and nature, looking at nature as culture and the dividing line between them. Concentrating her practice on drawing and its contemporary concerns, she uses it to help her explore her chosen subject of nature, the natural sciences and social history.
Ideas of evolution; botany; taxonomy and collecting/collections; palaeontology; geography; maps; walking; social history; folklore and mythologies; landscape/wilderness; memory; and all their associations and allusions to place interest and influence Hannah, as well as the everyday affect the natural world has on our lives, however insignificant it may seem.
www.hannahstageman.com