OSR Projects

The Owler’s Cloak represents a poor man’s fleece, made from pieces of sheep wool found in fields adjacent to the sea. Owling was a term for the smuggling of sheep or wool, and Owlers were so named because they operated at night. English fleeces were highly prized on the continent but between 1614 and 1825 the export of wool was forbidden. On beaches adjacent to sheep fields, smugglers loading goods at night would wear fleeces: if excise men came, the smugglers crouched down and pretended, in the dark, to be sheep and blend in with the flock.

Sara will lead two walks setting out from The Village Café, East Coker on Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 10.30am. She has also worked with Simon Lee Dicker to produce Something to hold onto, a Community Clay project run by pupils from Perrott Hill and East Coker Schools.

For more details on Something to hold onto workshop booking required – £3

For the walks see events – Booking required for the walks, £5

Co-selected by Extra Ordinary People at East Side Projects.

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Sara Trillo’s recent work explores lost landscape features and vanished settlements: spaces that have been coastally eroded, ploughed up, built over, or which have simply become overgrown and forgotten.

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A series of paintings based on historic herbaria, which are dried plant specimens pinned to sheets of paper, used by botanists to study plants. Marcia is fascinated by the idea of separating and flattening nature to understand and organise it, but also the care and close observation given by the scientists.

Drawn with bleach on linen this large wall hanging has its origins in the idea of cartography as domination, but here the botanical map is old and battered and failing apart, a reference to colonialism and the current climate situation.

More work by Marcia is on show at Dawe’s Twineworks,  where two painting workshops and a plant exchange organised by Marcia will also take place. See our events listings for more details and booking.

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Marcia Teusink’s work explores climate change, collapsing environments and regrowth through painting, sculpture, video, printmaking and mixed media.

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This short film brings together images of naturally occurring calcified architectural forms including heart urchin shells and aquatic worm husks, alongside decommissioned modernist architecture and archival footage of seismic research, all in an endless loop of construction and disintegration.

Co-selected by Primary.

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Nastassja Simensky is an artist who often works collaboratively to make writing, place-specific performances, events, sound work and films as a form of ongoing fieldwork. Nastassja coordinates the Archaeology Heritage Art Research Network.

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A temporary assemblage of found, natural and human-made materials, which will be dismantled after the festival – the objects discarded, lost or re-used in other works, or returned to their point of finding, to resume their place in cycles of decay.

Tom will lead a circle-building workshop on Saturday 26, opening up the processes of his practice for anyone to try. See our events listings for more details – Booking required.

Co-selected by Hogchester Arts.

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Tom Sewell works across sculpture, drawing, installation, print, performance, photography and writing. His practice investigates human relationships with nature, using research into (pre)history, mythology, language, landscape and life to open up the porous border between nature and culture, questioning that dualism and exploring how it shifts through time and space.

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Tracy Hill’s drawings reflect on experiences of walking through landscape – exploring the human body’s capacity to sense almost imperceptible material forces, vibrations and energies in the world.

Two parts of Tracy’s research project ‘Porosity’ are being shown together at OSR Projects: a series of lithographic prints, along with temporary drawings created by dropping water and tusche (ink) onto a ground lithographic stone. As the tusche dries on the stones, at a speed dictated by the warmth of the day, subtle air movements and changes in the atmosphere are captured on the stone surface.

Co-selected by AirSpace Gallery.

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Tracy Hill’s work explores how trans-disciplinary engagement can offer new ideas and ways of seeing landscapes. Her practice connects the act of walking, beliefs and
processes of performative drawing and hand-printing.

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These ceramic sculptures play with ideas of gravity and mass, slumping, solid heaviness of form, oozing glazes capturing movement frozen in material. The Plutons take their name from the term for the indeterminate bulbous masses of magma that form beneath volcanoes.

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Dean Coates is a qualified geologist and has a background in brick manufacturing, education and studio ceramics. He is interested in the journey and changing states of geological matter. How they are created, altered, transported, deposited and extracted. The story of deep time spanning millions of years.

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