The Ash Project - Kent Downs

The Ash Archive. The Halpern Gallery, Chatham (2018). Photo: Elena Amoros

My Grandfather’s Tree by Max Lamb, as part of The Ash Archive at The Halpern Gallery, Chatham (2018). Photo: Elena Amoros.

Online Ash Archive

The Ash Archive. The Halpern Gallery, Chatham (2018). Photo: Elena Amoros

Review: The Ash Archive As An Urgent Historical Memory Exercise

The Ash Archive is an encapsulation that protects the memories from oblivion. The Ash Archive is the defence against the loss, death and ephemeral status of one of the main relics of our national heritage, but also, the epitaph of a foretold death.

Holy Trinity, (A Photographic Exchange). Photo: Maureen Jordan

Artworks Contributions

“ashes to go” by Maureen Jordan

“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return”. In 2018 took part in a weekend workshop run by the performance-photographer Manuel Vason as part of The Ash…

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Scott Bloomfield: Ash on Ice

This piece called Ash on Ice is one of the many donations that The Ash Tree Project accepts in order to build a more diverse catalogue for The Ash Archive, our…

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The Ash Tree by M.R James

Read about The Ash Tree by celebrated British horror writer M. R. James, set in a large estate in Suffolk, it tells the tale of a man haunted by an ash tree in his garden.

Cartoon Ash Dieback 2012. Photo: Tony Harwood

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Cartoons from the first discovery of ash dieback

Aye, lad. Losing our elm then our ash trees was bad enough, but then the great wind turbine blight started in 2012…

The effects of ash Dieback, West Kent. Photo: John Miller.

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Ash Myths of the Folkestone Downs

Ash trees have long played an important role in our lives from the Stone Age to modern day. In Norse mythology the ash is the tree that represents Yggdrasil, the…

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Ashes to ashes: Steves home

A poignant account of the touching memories and uncertain future of the ash tree sent in by Steve Walker, entitled ‘Ashes to Ashes’. Also pictured are two images of the ash trees around Steve’s house.