November 4 -7, 2021

Experiments in creative collaboration.

This installation explored further layers of listening and interaction. Some of the responsive work was improvised and some more defined. The exhibition included visual arts, dance, poetry, live music and the option to create a movement sensitive soundtrack with an experimental smartphone app. There was a workshop guided by Ilkley Literature Festival Poet in Residence Ian Duhig with a group from Refugee Action and reactive work led by Art School Ilkley.

The original forest installation, by sculptor Juliet Gutch and filmmaker Clare Dearnaley with composer Sally Beamish, took on a new form. Visitors and artists were invited to tread their own path through it. Coinciding with COP26 and action about the climate crisis, the exhibition explored how interactions made with care can give hope to redefining our balance with nature. 

Donations and a percentage of all sales went to Ilkley Climate Change. 

September 18 - November 12, 2021

The Dovetailing installation (some but not all of the mobiles and the Dovetailing film) was shown at The Intersect Arts Center, St. Louis, US this autumn as part of an exhibition called Dovetail.

June 14 - 27, 2021

The first Dovetailing exhibition took place at Farfield Meeting House, on the Dales Way in Yorkshire.

Visitors were invited to reflect on the quietness of the making of musical instruments amid the sounds of nature in one of the first buildings created for stillness and contemplation. The early, modest Quaker meeting house was built in 1689, the same year as the Act of Toleration, and is an important monument on the path to freedom of belief.

Donations and a percentage of all sales went to The Woodmeadow Trust. 

With thanks to the following for support in various ways:

Linus Andersson, Mark Carey, Robert and Julia Gibson, Jamie Gutch, Stephanie Irvine, Sophie Renshaw, Professor Tom Shakespeare, Karen Vaughan, Sophie Wallace

Edition Peters, Friends of Farfield, Historic Chapels Trust, Ilkley Arts, Ilkley Literature Festival, The Manor House Trust, The Ronnie Duncan Art Foundation, London Mozart Players, Outside the Box Ilkley