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DEAR NATURE AT BRIGHTON FESTIVAL

My film ‘Dear Nature’ commissioned by Artist John Newling will be showing at Brighton Festival 2021. More information and tickets can be found here.

‘Eighty-one letters written over 81 consecutive days. Letters that confront our ongoing relationship with Nature; letters that question, confess and address. Socially engaged artist John Newling’s letters to Nature form a poetic manifesto for our relationship with the natural world. Part impassioned plea, part exercise in truth and reconciliation, they are written frankly and intimately as if to a loved-one, attempting to forge a closer, more fruitful relationship.

Now, in a thought-provoking co-commission by Brighton Festival, composers Sally Beamish and Lisa Heute have linked a selection of these letters using a series of pieces for solo cello.  The letters, read by members of John’s community, are juxtaposed with Reece Straw’s mesmerising images of nature and live performance of the new solo cello works. An appeal for a new state of mind for the future, rooted in hope, balance and respect.’

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Dear Nature at IKON Gallery

In 2018 Artist John Newling spent 81 consecutive days writing letters to nature. This culminated into a book entitled ‘Dear Nature’ (Available to purchase here).

After the launch of the book in 2019 John Newling commissioned me to interpret the book into a film for exhibition. The film is a mediative journey through nature guided by the narration of multiple voices reading the letters from the book.

The film will be launched at Newling’s new major exhibition ‘Dear Nature’ at IKON Gallery Birmingham 4th March — 6th September 2020.

More on the exhibition can be found here.