Artworks to watch
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Finders Seekers
Commissioned by Greenfield Arts, January – March 2021
Shaped by conversations with community participants about possibility, enquiry, challenge and changing perspectives. In response, Bethan created an eco-system; a collection of artworks that interlink with each other, combining tools and human-made objects of exploration and elevation with seeds, roots and ‘rewilding’ nature.
The exhibition invites the viewer to enter a child-like world; a paper made forest full of metaphor, imagination and elevation.
Floraphone
Woodhorn Museum 2019
Commissioned by Woodhorn Museum “The Floraphone” was a site specific, interactive work combining moving sculpture, horticulture and sound, to playfully explore the internal life of plants.
Exhibited alongside Matt Stokes’ The Sound Mirror, it took inspiration from his research into the story of an orchid grown and named in honour of footballing legend Jackie Milburn.
The work featured sound design by Nick John William, and textiles elements created in collaboration with Catriona Maddocks and Amber Zamani-Esskeli.
Book of Shadows
Saltwell Park, Gateshead 2016
A series of paper-cut artworks that utilised light and shadow to create a live shadow-animation that told stories of persecution of women over the ages.
The work retold local and historical stories about witch trials and persecution from the middle ages to modern day.