Sustainable, handmade lights, placed outside to mark periods of quiet observation as the twilights fall away to midnight sun in Arctic Norway. The warm colours, achieved using natural pigments, are less intrusive to nocturnal wildlife. An ongoing project.
Investigations into bothies, huts, and isolated, rural buildings... How do we share these places, and with whom? Where does the power lie? And what of the more-than-human in these spaces? [in-habit-out is at Kendal Museum People's Gallery, April - June 2025]
Reflections on the site of a historic hutting community in south west Scotland. Found object sculptures with relief printmaking, for the Niche Gallery, Dumfries. Work in progress.
Forest Floor: Limited edition linocuts on reclaimed floor boards dispensed from a mysterious vending machine deep in the forest. Natural resources coming full circle. (Selected images: Colin Tennant)
Embed: Hunker down, look up, listen out. The forest provides us with so much. Let's reciprocate, slow down and lend it some of our hard-fought time. Hang for a while. (Selected images: Colin Tennant)
Welcome to The Un-Map, an instruction manual for losing your mind in the forest.
Small Water: An installation for the people of Manchester, symbolic gifts representing the knowledge that your drinking water, your nourishment, comes from Far Away. Flipping our urbancentric geographies, placing nature centrally. What is in your nature? And what nature is in you?
Where is your comfort zone? This panacea, this confluence of dusklight and creeping, inky tides. Submerge yourself in Manxman's Lake.
REP^IR/ Forms for the Future: Handmade fabrikpaper forms, of a time, of a place, entirely of waste materials and forage. Strengthened with Japanese starch paste, you can crumple them time and time again. An entire art show in a rucksack, flipping an elegant two fingers at the wasteful paraphernalia of exhibition.
Red Lines: Intuitive sculptures, part of a grounding process, a slowing down, seeking rhythm, rooting a creative practice in a new place.
Determined Pasts: Microsculptures, symbolically wrapping the rusted historical debris of the peat cutting industry, freezing it in time and looking to the future. Far into the future. Uncertain talis(wo)men. Art or artefact? You decide.
