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Developing over the course of my Future Wales Fellowship, this is a work in progress - a creative exploration of peatlands and an attempt to demonstrate how this work shapes my thinking around ecology, sculpture and language. 

Peatlands are landscapes that resist immediate access: they’re hidden, subtle. They’re unstable grounds charged with textural stickiness and potential. Interweaving geological, botanical, and cultural time, they are habitats that question human habits, offering material and conceptual frameworks for re-orientation. 

Join me as I attempt to gather my material thoughts…





Peat covers only 4% of the land area in Wales but stores one third of total soil carbon. In a healthy peatland, 1mm of peat forms in a year, so a metre represents a thousand years. Materials take time. These sites are deep maps that help us to read the past and imagine the future.

 


Balance and stability are impossible in a time of climate and ecological crisis - we must learn to sway and find alternative forms of support. Through my work on peatlands, I’m putting myself in alternative relationships to sites, and in the process material thoughts develop and shape my practice. Sculptures go beyond self-contained objects and become props or tools for traversing precarious territories and engaging intimately with the dynamics and language of a site.





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This page will be updated as the project develops.