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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Exhibition Artists
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Author, poet, photographer and founder of Our Isles, Angus will be exhibiting his work that captures those rural lives in the British Isles who have a deep connection to the land.
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Printmaker, illustrator and founder of Our Isles, Lilly will be exhibiting a series of her print work inspired by living in the Welsh countryside and her travels over the British Isles.
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Chloé Rosetta Bell
Chloé is an artist and researcher. Material-focused and primarily working in clay, her practice examines the livelihoods that are dependent on a specific landscape.
Maria Bell
Maria is a photographer specialising in food, lifestyle, portraiture and the environment. Maria will be exhibiting her photographs capturing and celebrating the Welsh sea salt harvest.
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Max Birditt
Max is a winemaker and illustrator, who will be exhibiting his series of ink sketches that observe vine growth, expressing each stage of the growth through the seasons.
Phillip Boyd
Phillip is a surfing, lifestyle and sea-life photographer. He also finds jellyfish intriguing, so in the summer months he’ll follow these creatures until the Autumn swells approach.
Born and raised in Cornwall, Rosie is a freelance writer and photographer with a love for the outdoors and story-telling. She will be exhibiting photographs from her 'Chasing Fish' series.
Christian Doyle
Christian is a photographer who captures social portraits of both people and rural animals. She will be exhibiting a few of her photographs that depict rural life in the Our Isles exhibition.
Lottie Hampson
Lottie is a photographer and maker who works with photography, drawing, food and ceramics. Her interests lie in the connection between people and the landscape.
Mohamed Hassan
Mohamed’s work encompasses portrait, landscape and street photography. Originally from Alexandria, Mohamed has been living and working in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.
Grania Howard
Grania is a photographer, who will be exhibiting her photographs capturing the life of a particular community of Travellers that have a long and deep-rooted connection to horses.
Rory Hudson
Rory is a designer and furniture maker from Pen Llŷn, North Wales, exploring the connection to the land using native timbers, inspired by the story of trees & traditional skills.
Alex Ingram
Alex is a freelance photographer based in London, whose work ‘seamlessly documents the beauty of the world around him.’ He captures people and expresses the stories they have to tell.
Olivia Bush
Olivia is a printmaker and book designer. Led by tactile processes and materials, her practice is heavily influenced by rich areas of landscape from across the UK.
Jaime Molina
Jaime is a documentary photographer, using his photography to find ways of exploring and communicating the spellbinding stories found in the natural world.
Joanna Porter
Joanna is a basket maker and weaver from the island of Bardsey (Ynys Enlli) in Wales. Joanna will be exhibiting her series of 'Bardsey baskets' based on a traditional basket from the island.
Alex Walshaw
Alex is a woodworker deeply inspired by nature and the seasonal changes in the landscape. He will be exhibiting a series of his woodworks inspired by his connection to the landscape.
Jac Williams
Jac is a Welsh photographer from a farming family. He documents the working life of his family farm, aiming to raise the awareness of the lives in farming.
Our Isles exhibition is proudly supported by Arts Council of Wales
