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.
