PaC
Walk – meet at The Village Cafe, East Coker
Sun 25 May, 11am -12:30pm
Booking required
PaC
Together we walk, explore and create a commons of exchange and peer support. PaC: placing artists in common / practicing artists commoning / utm (utm = yoU Tell Me, acknowledging that PaC can be and is different in experience and meaning to different participants).
Throughout Od Arts Festival PaC artists Gemma Gore, James Aldridge, Laura Eldret and Melanie Rose will be in residence and on Sunday you are invited to join them for an artists-led walk through the ancient holloways local to the Cokers.
ABOUT
PaC was initiated and is convened by Laura Eldret as part of More Than Ponies and is made possible with commitment from fellow PaC artists James Aldridge, Gemma Gore, Alys Scott-Hawkins, Melanie Rose and others who have walked with us. Monthly meet-ups take place within the New Forest.
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Melanie Rose is a painter exploring place. Exhibiting widely she has paintings held in both private and public collections. She is a British Academy research scholar, having been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds.
Gemma Gore is a visual artist, arts educator and writer, based in Southampton, UK. Grounded in positions of disability, motherhood, queer-ecology and radical vulnerability, she explores the modalities and qualities of interconnectedness.
James Aldridge is a Wiltshire based visual artist working with people and places. James’s practice researches the role of artful and embodied explorations of place within learning/research, and their benefit for individual/ecological wellbeing, with a particular emphasis on Queer and Neurodivergent perspectives.
Laura Eldret is an artist and PhD researcher, exploring commoning as a creative and socio-ecological practice. Her works, including installations, posters, drawings, textiles, videos and events, are frequently the result of cross-disciplinary or collaborative approaches.