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The book documents the Place Project - a collaboration between the visual artist Kurt Jackson and 30- plus contemporary writers. Jackson invited each writer to choose, and then justify in words a Place in Britain. Then, in an epic series of journeys Jackson visited and worked at each chosen location responding with a series of paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Kurt Jackson; Helen Dunmore - Paddington Station; Michael Eavis - Worthy View; Patrick Gale - Tregonebris Hill; Jimi Goodwin - Wapley Hill; Philip Gross - Penarth Head; Charlotte Gunn - The River Dart, Dartmoor; Professor Stephen Heselboro - Hallaig, Raasay; Carol Hughes - Ted s Writing Hut; Robert Hurrell - An Estuary, Devon; Caroline Jackson - The New Forest; John Krebs (Lord Krebs of Wytham) - Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire; Professor Catherine Leyshon - Brandon Woods; Riard Mabey - Grand Union Canal, Rickmansworth; Robert Macfarlane - The Cairngorms; Jessica Mann - Yew Trees at Lambessow; Steve Marshall - Badbury Rings; Alice Oswald - alk Ford, Scorriton, Dartmoor; Annie Robinson - Eel Pie Island, Twickenham; John Sauven - Broomway; Dr John Stephens - Na Gearrannan, Isle of Lewis; Professor Helen Taylor - Spike Island, Bristol; Professor Charles Thomas - Tintagel Castle; John Vidal - Vale of Llangollen; Bob Wilson - Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Kurt Jackson; Helen Dunmore - Paddington Station; Michael Eavis - Worthy View; Patrick Gale - Tregonebris Hill; Jimi Goodwin - Wapley Hill; Philip Gross - Penarth Head; Charlotte Gunn - The River Dart, Dartmoor; Professor Stephen Heselboro - Hallaig, Raasay; Carol Hughes - Ted s Writing Hut; Robert Hurrell - An Estuary, Devon; Caroline Jackson - The New Forest; John Krebs (Lord Krebs of Wytham) - Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire; Professor Catherine Leyshon - Brandon Woods; Riard Mabey - Grand Union Canal, Rickmansworth; Robert Macfarlane - The Cairngorms; Jessica Mann - Yew Trees at Lambessow; Steve Marshall - Badbury Rings; Alice Oswald - alk Ford, Scorriton, Dartmoor; Annie Robinson - Eel Pie Island, Twickenham; John Sauven - Broomway; Dr John Stephens - Na Gearrannan, Isle of Lewis; Professor Helen Taylor - Spike Island, Bristol; Professor Charles Thomas - Tintagel Castle; John Vidal - Vale of Llangollen; Bob Wilson - Ely, Cambridgeshire.
176 pages, Paperback
Published April 28, 2015
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January 3, 2019
I went to see a Kurt Jackson exhibition and liked some not not that much of it. Afterward I flipped through this book nd thought, this looks better than what I've just seen, I'll take a risk on it. Having been through it in detail now, I feel the same way; the average standard is much better than I saw at the Victoria Art Gallery.
Jackson approached 32 people he knew, asking them to write a page about their favourite place in Britain which would subsequently go in the book along with the art Jackson made upon visiting each place. It's an eclectic mix of people, from fellow artists to writers to scientists by way of Greenpeace activists and others. I recognised some of the names e.g. Helen Dunmore, Carol Hughes and Michael Eavis.
Most of the favourite places were countryside or wilderness but some were urban. The paintings I liked most were the most straightforwardly representational, as opposed to the collage-style ones. Some of the sculptures were also good, again the most straightforward designs. The painting style is unique, superficially seeming impressionistic but not using the genuine techniques of Impressionism at all.
Jackson approached 32 people he knew, asking them to write a page about their favourite place in Britain which would subsequently go in the book along with the art Jackson made upon visiting each place. It's an eclectic mix of people, from fellow artists to writers to scientists by way of Greenpeace activists and others. I recognised some of the names e.g. Helen Dunmore, Carol Hughes and Michael Eavis.
Most of the favourite places were countryside or wilderness but some were urban. The paintings I liked most were the most straightforwardly representational, as opposed to the collage-style ones. Some of the sculptures were also good, again the most straightforward designs. The painting style is unique, superficially seeming impressionistic but not using the genuine techniques of Impressionism at all.
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