‘The Ash Archive’ is a growing collection of objects, artworks, poems and drawings that chart a unique materialist perspective on the history that we share with the ash tree. Curated by Madeleine Hodge and Rose Thompson for The Ash Project
This 5 mile pilgrimage, presented as part of the North Downs Way Pilgrimage Festival and The Ash Project, explores the ancient cultural connections we share with ash trees in our landscapes.
Curator Rose Thompson has devised four walks in collaboration with artists, encouraging different ways of looking at and exploring the landscape in Kent, the third of The Ash Walks will be hosted by artist Marcus Coates and Fiona Macdonald.
Listen to French & Mottersheads work Woodland and then join us for a discussion of the work and a wider discussion of the project with Andrew Mottershead and Madeleine Hodge curator of The Ash Archive
The Tree Listening Project provides an experience that links both science and art by engaging the public with what happens inside a tree, to excite and inspire a keen interest in trees.
As part of The Ash Project and in response to The Ash Archive, Claire Orme and guests will perform a live score to the 1975 TV adaption of M R James’s story.
‘The Ash Archive’ is a growing collection of objects, artworks, poems and drawings that chart a unique materialist perspective on the history that we share with the ash tree. Curated by Madeleine Hodge and Rose Thompson for The Ash Project
This walk will take in some of the lovely ash trees around Ringwould and in Oxneybottom Wood, and discuss the importance of collecting objects that record the history of human…
Curator Rose Thompson has devised four walks in collaboration with artists, encouraging different ways of looking at and exploring the landscape in Kent, the third of The Ash Walks will be hosted by artist Adam Chodzko.
Over two days we will practice photography as a methodology to communicate and connect with the ash trees of a small forest near Folkestone.
In this workshop at the beautiful Kearsney Abbey we celebrate the ash tree in this workshop as we focus primarily on the ash tree and the surrounding landscape.
Come along with your children to this very special Green Gang event. Learn about ash and make your very own ash book, from things collected on the Whinless Downs
Have you ever wanted to know your ash from your walnut or your beech from your hornbeam? On this walkshop you will learn what makes ash so distinctive in the landscapes of Kent and see how it is a special feature of the wild spaces around Kearsney Abbey
Join us as part of Trosley Country Parks Open day for a walk with Kent Tree Wardens in this beautiful woodland country park.
‘The Ash Archive’ is a growing collection of objects, artworks, poems and drawings that chart a unique materialist perspective on the history that we share with the ash tree. Curated by Madeleine Hodge and Rose Thompson for The Ash Project
Join us and Kent Tree Wardens in this private woodland sanctuary for wildlife and see ash trees in this historic and very special place.
Curator Rose Thompson has devised four walks in collaboration with artists, encouraging different ways of looking at and exploring the landscape in Kent, the second of the 2018 Ash Walks will be hosted by The Walking Reading Group
Gain insight into both the scientific and cultural importance of this very special tree on a walk through one of the most affected woods in Kent.
Artists such as John Constable, Henry Moore and David Nash have all taken inspiration from landscapes of ash trees. In this morning workshop we will draw some of the magnificent…
Join us on walk through Canterbury’s lovely tree lined parks and streets with local Kent Tree Wardens and learn about all the benefits of trees in cities.
Ancient Woodlands protect biodiversity and develop as ecosystems that are rich, complex, and irreplaceable. Join us to learn more about how we can spot these special places
Curator Rose Thompson has devised four walks in collaboration with artists, encouraging different ways of looking at and exploring the landscape in Kent, the first of the 2018 Ash Walks will be hosted by artist Hannah Lees.
Come and help us plant trees to create a new woodland in a landscape in Kent. With trees selected by a local ecologist to protect the biodiversity of this landscape.
Come and help us plant trees to replace diseased ash trees in a woodland in Kent. With trees selected by a local ecologist to protect the biodiversity of this ancient wood.
Join us for an evening of poetry, art and wine, in the Ash Archive exhibition. The evening will feature poet Urvashi Bahuguna, the University of Kent’s Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow in the School of English.
Ash wood is known for being lightweight, tolerant to vibration and very hard. Egyptians imported ash from Europe and used the wood, which bends when steamed, to perfect the invention…
The talk will take in the impacts that this and other tree threats will have on the future of our landscapes and how we might mark and celebrate ash in light of this epidemic trees before it is too late. With Ackroyd and Harvey and David Carey leader of the Tree Wardens of Kent.
In this session, we look at a selection of objects from collected from Rob Penns the Man Who Made Things Out of Trees and museum collections which will form part of a larger archive of ash objects at the University of Kent Studio 3 Gallery in 2018.
Ancient trees hold and locate histories; providing valuable resources, marking boundaries and important locations which have had meaning to local communities over centuries.
