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
Author, poet, photographer and founder of Our Isles, Angus has curated the exhibition and exhibits his photography, prose and poetry in the Hedgerow exhibition at the Food Museum.
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Printmaker and illustrator Lilly Hedley assisted on the curation of Hedgerow and exhibits a series of her prints in it, showcasing the wildlife that calls the hedgerow environment home.
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 hedgerow.
Nationally renowned British printmaker, Angie Lewin has contributed a collection of her prints to the Hedgerow exhibition inspired by Nature and the semi-natural habitat.
Antony Wren
Antony is a nature photographer, who captures the exquisite detail of the wildlife that call the rural environment home. Antony exhibits his Emperor Moth in the Hedgerow exhibition.
ATM
ATM is a street artist painting birds threatened with extinction, 67 species now in serious decline across Britain. ATM exhibits his yellowhammer at Hedgerow.
Christiane Gunzi
Based in Sussex, Christiane handcrafts traditional baskets using English willow, rush and other natural materials. She exhibits three delicate bird nests made from birch branches.
Joseph Dupré
Joseph is a versatile artist, ranging from printmaking and painting to sculpture. He exhibits three beautiful pieces in Hedgerow, a jay, yellowhammer and hedgerow urn.
Joya Berrow
Joya is a photographer and filmmaker. Her work is inspired by the rural environment, community and connecting people to nature. Joya exhibits her photography in the Hedgerow exhibition.
Kamaria Pryce
Kamaria is a self-taught watercolour artist. Her inspiration comes from everyday objects and the natural environment. Kamaria exhibits four watercolours of a meadow in each season.
Marco Kesseler
Marco is a photographer with an interest in portraits, food and contemporary social stories. He exhibits his photographs on landscape, hedgelaying and foraging in Hedgerow.
Meg Fatharly
Meg creates art from paper fragments, re-arranging them through printmaking and collage. Meg exhibits three charming collages in the Hedgerow exhibition at the Food Museum.
Mohamed Hassan
Mohamed is a photographer capturing a variety of subjects from portraiture to the natural environment. From Wales, Mohamed exhibits three photographs in the Hedgerow exhibition.
Richard Allenby-Pratt
Richard is a photographer, who has exhibited globally, and now lives in Suffolk. Richard exhibits his landscape photography in Hedgerow captured in his home county.
Tom Bunning
Tom is a commercial photographer working in the UK. Tom exhibits a series of his photographs that capture Ben Short hedgelaying in Dorset, laying in the county's regional style.
Venetia Higgins
Venetia is a painter and printmaker, inspired by animals and her local surroundings of the Suffolk countryside including it's wildlife. She exhibits four paintings to the Hedgerow exhibition.
Nigel Adams
Nigel has been hedgelaying since he was 21 and competes in many competitions around the country. He has been a consultant on the Hedgerow exhibition at the Food Museum.
Megan Gimber
Megan is the Habitats Officer at PTES and is a self-confessed geek on hedgerows, a font of all knowledge on the semi natural habitat. Megan was a consultant for the Hedgerow exhibition.
Tom Williamson
Tom is a landscape historian, writer and landscape archaeologist with wide-ranging interests. He has been a consultant for the Hedgerow exhibition at the Food Museum.
