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 Hedgerow exhibition wins
'Sustainable Project of the Year'
OUR ISLES EXPLORES THE ARTISTRY OF RURAL LIFE IN BRITAIN & IRELAND
Read the article by Angus D. Birditt written for the Sustainable Food Trust on hedgerows.
Our Hedgerow exhibition at The Food Museum has been awarded the 'Sustainable Project of the Year' by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Click here to read more. (Photo: Food Museum)
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EXHIBITIONS
The Hedgelayer
A photography series taken by Angus D. Birditt following a hedgelayer in North Wales.
EXHIBITIONS
Read the following essay on the recent exhibition by artist duo Forest + Found.
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FARMING
Read the following article and photography that interviews Navaratnam Partheeban, a farm vet who is helping to progress the industry and explains his love for farming.
FOOD & DRINK
BBC Food & Farming Awards nominees Brothers Farm grows organic blueberries.
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Nominated in Andre Simon Awards for 'Food Book of the Year' and Fortnum & Mason's Food & Drink Awards for 'Debut Food Book', explore this book further.
This article sheds light on the diversity of the dairy industry, looking at a few examples of different food and farming systems across the British Isles.
Discovering Enlli: On Land and Sea
Founder, Angus D. Birditt, visits the island of Enlli, just off the Welsh mainland in the Irish Sea, to discover its food and the people who call the island home. Coming soon.