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Honouring Land and Ocean – Curlew and Great Auk
The Conference of the Birds is a creatively-fuelled, process-driven forum. It aspires to enable sensuous activity as catalyst for respectful, non-confrontational dialogue and thereby contribute to a recalibration of our relationship with the ‘beyond human’ world. In acknowledging nuance and listening to perspectives beyond our own we give ourselves a better chance of enabling the collective action needed to arrest our rapidly-accelerating progress along the road to oblivion. It’s about building bridges and sharing stories of hope – but also being truthful. We cannot, must not sugarcoat the dark reality of what we have done, where we stand and what, as a consequence of our actions, we now face.
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Huia and Great Auk: Sanctity and Greed
What does ‘nature’ represent to us? A resource or commodity to be managed, exploited, possessed – and something from which we are separate? Or an intangible, omnipresent and all powerful ‘field’, to which we are (at the very least) inextricably connected – if not fully a part of. These contrasting perspectives represent poles on a…
Amgueddfa Carreghofa
Charles Darwin wrote: ‘I distinctly remember the desire I had of being able to know something about every pebble in front of the hall door’. Without exception, all of the artists, archaeologists, scientists, farmers, teachers and generally sparky people with whom I’m fortunate to work share a keen eye and an unquenchable thirst for discovery.…
The Curlew’s Story – Ysgol Bryn Coch
Ysgol Bryn Coch’s animated film ‘The Curlew’s Story’ deserves its own post. It nails all the problematic issues surrounding biodiversity loss and climate change far more succinctly than I ever could. I think it’s brilliant, moving and technically accomplished and I’m so proud to have worked with them. Most importantly, it spoke directly to our…
The Curlew: From the top of the mountain to the heart of democracy
Two years after the journey began with a walk to a limestone cave on Bryn Alyn the call of the curlew is ringing out across the Senedd, the beating heart of Welsh democracy. Telling a story spanning millennia of an ever-changing landscape, Lynx Cave is a time machine and served to create an essential context.…
Y Clymau Sy’n Cynnal – The Ties That Bind at Loggerheads
Y Clymau Sy’n Cynnal – The Ties That Bind was presented in the state-of-the-art Watermill 3D cinema at Loggerheads Country Park on April 28th 2023. The event represented an important marker on a long and winding journey which began in a bog in Radnorshire/Sir Faesyfed over a year ago – and has further yet to…
Re-animating the curlew: a ritual of hope and renewal
A definition of ritual is: noun: a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order. adjective: relating to or done as a religious or solemn rite. I’m not sure I’ve anything to add to that other than to state that this may be the most important thing…
More Food For Thought…
I’ve been interested in the potential of culinary offerings that resonate with the core themes of my animated imagery since staging a feast – for the eyes, ears and tastebuds – for the Countryfile cameras; a showcase for my collaboration with the Great Crane Project and farming communities in the Somerset Levels. The resulting episode…
Y Clymau Sy’n Cynnal – The Ties That Bind
For English scroll down… Yn ddiweddar, gydag Ysgol Dyffryn Iâl, Llandegla ac Ysgol Pen Barras, Rhuthun, rydym wedi bod yn meddwl am symbiosis: sut mae popeth yn dibynnu ar bopeth arall, sut na all unrhyw rywogaeth oroesi ar ei ben ei hun – gan gynnwys ein hunain. A beth sy’n digwydd pan fydd un edefyn…
Loggerheads Watermill Cinema presents…
THE CAVE HUNTERS AND THE TRUTH MACHINE (in both digital and clockwork formats) This special presentation brings to life beasts long gone from the landscape AND the journals of the early researchers who unearthed them in a story which is still unfurling today… Through the magic of animation the bones of Ice Age beasts, entombed…
Re-animating Our Connection To Nature
One of the best of many connections to emerge from the projection events held last autumn at Loggerheads Country Park (HQ of the Clwydian Range and Dee Valley AONB) was with Ysgol Bryn Coch, Mold. You know you’ve got real interest and commitment when four members of staff come out on a Friday evening at the…
St. Melangell’s Pie
For The Cycles of Truth – the presentation of The Cave Hunters And The Truth Machine at Revolution Bike Park, Llangynog – I worked with farmer Rhian Williams of Pantri Peniarth, Penybontfawr (just down the road) to create ‘St. Melangell’s Pie’ as an offering to everyone who came to participate in the experience. I wanted…
Stirring Up The Ghosts
We, in our hubristic fashion, adjudge ourselves a successful species. But consider this; we are doing a good job of destroying ourselves (and much else) after just 300,000 years of existence and only 50-65,000 years since we evolved what is termed ‘behavioural modernity’. The hyaena was present in the landscape of the Clwydians for over…
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Sean Harris Artist Animation Wales 