Sensing Trees

Accompanying GroundWork Gallery’s exhibition Art for the Environment, this exciting live and interactive event involves exhibiting artist Beth Robertson in conversation with distinguished contemporary composer Stevie Wishart and Brian Ogden, tree scientist and borough Arboricultural Officer. We will listen to them talking, and join them on an exploratory walk to sense trees in King’s Lynn’s beautiful town park, The Walks.

The two artists have much in common to discuss, but also fascinating differences in approach and artistic results. Both are involved with  symbiotic relationships between humans, trees and other life forms through both sound and sense. Beth’s work ‘Becoming Tree’ blurs distinctions between our fleshy and vegetal bodies and responds to sensations through field recordings. Stevie aims to make us more aware of our relationships with nature using ambient sound relationships as a means to create a musical score. They will be joined by Brian Ogden, a tree specialist who will contribute practical knowhow and a view from another discipline equally balanced between rigour and experiment.