June/July2014

Earth, Sky, Stone

With English Heritage and Stonehenge.

Project Manager  and Lead Artist

Earth Sky Stone was a project funded by English Heritage to engage a group of young adults with learning disabilities, offering them the opportunity to discover and explore the Stones ,the new visitor centre and the landscape around. The project unfolded over 6 weeks in the summer 2014. 

The development of the work has uncovered many layers of process happening in parallel; the project itself and the interactions with the participants have been inspirational for both artists and the group. Beside this there has been the collaborative process and the individual development for Laurence and Kate , revisiting a previous artistic relationship in a new time, from new perspectives and in a new landscape.   It also has opened up the previously unexplored medium of archaeology with the participation of author and resident archaeologist Julian Richards.

The underlying themes of Transformation, Change and Perspectives, was an invitation for artists to explore the conflict between permamence and impermanence  inevitably echoing  our own mortality.

The project unfolded as a story. A story of letting go of old perspectives and  looking at things in new and different ways, investigating physical and emotional relationship to landscape and looking at the past to understand how, in the present, we can shape the future.