Our Isles is a project founded by Angus D. Birditt & Lilly Hedley that
explores and celebrates the lives and landscape of the British countryside.
Our Isles is a project founded by Angus D. Birditt & Lilly Hedley that
explores and celebrates the lives and landscape of the British countryside.
Our Isles is a project founded by Angus D. Birditt & Lilly Hedley that
explores and celebrates the lives and landscape of the British countryside.
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Our Isles is a project celebrating and preserving the rural life of the British Isles, exploring its food & drink, landscape, nature, art, craft, heritage and community.
Our Isles is a project celebrating and preserving the rural life of the British Isles, exploring its food & drink, landscape, nature, art, craft, heritage and community.
Our Isles is a project celebrating and preserving the rural life of the British Isles, exploring its food & drink, landscape, nature, art, craft, heritage and community.
A Sense of Food & Place
A Sense of Food & Place
The Making of Baron Bigod
Angus D. Birditt
Isles of Scilly
Discover Megan Gallacher, a photographer from Norfolk, who contributes her photography collection called 'En Noer' to Stories within Our Isles evoking the life and culture on the Isles of Scilly.
Kingston upon Hull
Explore Studio Kettle's designs in their contribution to Stories within Our Isles that promotes a deeper attachment to our belongings.
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Seven Sisters
Shropshire
Angus D. Birditt visits Appleby's cheesemakers to see how they make their award-winning Cheshire.
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Suffolk
Explore the article by Tanmay Saxena, designer & filmmaker, who designs sustainable, handmade clothes. 'Darker than' is Tanmay's collection of handmade clothes inspired by his response to the changing landscape and light of Seven Sisters in East Sussex.
Jess Wheeler, designer and ceramist, on where in the British Isles she gets the inspiration.
Powys
Lottie Hampson series entitled 'Still Here' traces her family history to the River Usk in Wales.
Peak District
Explore Joe Winstanley's Skai, a series of prints inspired by the landscape of the Peak District.
Cumbria
Explore Grania Howard's series of photography called Cob Culture. Taken during her travels across the British Isles, Grania captures the unique connection between travellers and their horses.
Powys
Honest agriculture
From his journey within the Dee Valley, Jac Williams ventures across fields and farms talking to and capturing the lives of Welsh farmers.
We often marvel at it's appearance, live and breathe on it, make homes and feed from it. But do we truly understand the lie of the land? The following words extracted from longer poems and accompanying photography attempt to capture the immense beauty, fragility and mysteriousness of our Isles.
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Our Isles explores and celebrates the artistry of rural life in Britain and Ireland,
through its food & drink, arts, culture, nature and landscape.
Angus D. Birditt is a food writer and photographer, nominated for Best Food Book of 2022 in the André Simon Awards, Debut Food Book in the Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards 2023, and listed in the Financial Times, The Independent and BBC Food Programme's Top Books of 2022.
Angus is also an award-winning curator, poet, award-winning food producer and founder of Our Isles. He writes and photographs on food & drink, agriculture, nature and rural heritage. Angus has worked for the Sustainable Food Trust, Pasture for Life, Farms to Feed Us, Pipers Farm and collaborated with many other distinguished organisations. He has published a collection of poetry called Our Isles with Pavilion Books and A Portrait of British Cheese with Quadrille Publishing.
"We founded 'Our Isles' as a means to share, celebrate, and in some way, go to preserve the rural environment in Britain and Ireland. Under the canopy of 'Our Isles', we create and edit engaging work like our editorial 'Stories within Our Isles', publish articles, host exhibitions and write books, all to express our love for the countryside and to encourage its exploration."
Angus D. Birditt & Lilly Hedley
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Lilly is a published illustrator, printmaker and award-winning food producer. Her work is inspired by British rural heritage and history, our ever beautiful nature and folklore. All the work she produces is handmade, using ethically-sourced papers and materials. Lilly also does content research for the online editorial Stories within Our Isles, helping to showcase the best of rural talent. Her prints and illustrations have been published in two books.
Our Isles has proudly worked alongside the following organisations on various projects:
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