Haarlem Artspace podcast no.14 is an interview between film maker Gavin Repton and Geoff Diego Litherland, and delves deeper into the ideas, motivations and obstacles in realising the work. The podcast features various tracks of music from Woven / Ground Litherland’s new album.

Since 2016 Geoff has been redefining his artistic practice; discontent with simply depicting an idea of nature and landscape within his work, he sought to delve deeper into the interconnected threads between painting and the environment. His particular interest lay in using slow, pre-industrial craft processes to create natural canvas materials grown from the earth.

This led to a collaboration with his partner, weave designer Angharad McLaren, where they sowed, nurtured and harvested a crop of flax plants. The resulting flax fibre was then processed into hand-spun linen yarn to be hand woven into a patterned linen canvas, primed and painted on by the artist. Weaving and painting became investigative tools to explore the value of labour, locality, materials and their relationships to concepts, both historical and contemporary of inter-connectivity between nature and us. Context and meaning are woven and painted within the surface.

For more info about the music:

https://www.geoffdiegolitherland.com/woven-ground

An interview with Photographer Chris Brooks about his recent exhibition at Haarlem Artspace.

For almost ten years Brooks has been returning to his childhood home in Derbyshire to photograph the land and research the story of his family’s printing press, a business which he knew very little about due to the death of his father when he was a teenager.

The Brooks Press of Wirksworth, an imprint founded in 1898 published a wide range of material from travel guides and poetry to books on self-improvement. It finally closed its doors in the early 1970s, having passed from father to son for three generations, winding up just before Brooks was born.

By employing a mixture of exquisitely composed, atmospheric, large format colour portraits and landscapes combined with archival fragments and pages of letterpress, Chris Brooks examines concepts around ‘home’ and the complicated nature of belonging. By doing so, he draws our attention to the constantly changing meaning of what it is to be ‘in’ and ‘of’ a place. The Brooks Press of Wirksworth is thus a timely meditation on changing notions of nationhood, identity and the power of place.

https://thebrookspress.com/home

The podcast includes field recordings by Zach Holt and James Warring

and music by South-Facer

https://south-facer.com/

https://south-facer.bandcamp.com/

An Interview with George Miles about his Views of Matlock Bath photography project.

George Miles is a photographer from the UK. His work examines how the land is used, viewed, and mediated; physically and through its representations. His pictures have been exhibited in the UK and the United States. He has published several photobooks. This project started after he began an informal correspondence with Stephen Shore, continuing under his guidance and mentorship over the next three years. This show revisits the larger body of work that was published as a book in 2014.

Views of Matlock Bath channels visual traditions and tropes from both photography and painting. Championed for its picturesque qualities by the tastemakers of their times, including Byron and Ruskin, the valley bore witness to the consolidation of the English Landscape tradition, the birth of the Industrial Revolution, and of mass tourism.

These interconnections and the relationship they bear upon how we view the landscape are explored through the sequencing of the photographs. Enchanted woods, car parks, picnic benches, and grand views; nature and the man-altered. The contention formed between these opposites presents a contemplative space in which to reflect upon how representations of Landscape since the Industrial Revolution have been complicit in our disconnection from it.

Recording of a talk and in conversation with Victoria Lucas and curators David Gilbert and Olivia Punnett from September 2018. Victoria Lucas is a Sheffield based artist, Senior Lecturer of Fine Art at the University of Central Lancashire and current PhD student at Sheffield Hallam University. Recent projects restructure frameworks that define female experience against socially engrained stereotypes, often incorporating cinematic, literary and folklorist references to illustrate a radical shift in how femininity and power is generated and perceived. Lucas will present the show following a one month residency at Haarlem Artspace in the newly built project space on the recently renovated second floor.

A conversation with Chantal Powell about her solo exhibition Green Seed from Dark Earth at Haarlem Artspace, spring 2020.

https://www.haarlemartspace.co.uk/

Green Seed From Dark Earth showcases works by Chantal Powell that have emerged from her research into Jungian depth psychology and the beginnings of her personal inner alchemical journey.

https://www.chantalpowell.com/

Music by Melanie Pegge from her new album Underworld Floods.

https://melaniepegge.bandcamp.com/

Olivia Punnett in conversation with Aidan Shingler. Aidan is the creator of the Stardisc. StarDisc is a 21st century stone circle and celestial amphitheatre. It spans 12 meters (40 ft). Carved into black granite is a star chart that mirrors the northern hemisphere’s night sky. It's located at the top of Stoney Wood in Wirksworth and has attracted tens of thousands of visitors and staged numerous exciting events. It inspires, entertains, engages and is a highly valued community asset, educational resource and performance space.

This podcast includes the track "Calling" by Rose, Jordan and Shingler the soundtrack to the short film "Call of the Stars"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhPB6rrd2Y&feature=youtu.be

It also includes music by A Drysalter

https://soundcloud.com/adrysalter

This podcast is an in conversation between Olivia Punnett and Danica Maier. Danica Maier’s work uses site-specific installations and events to explore ideas of expectations of site, traditional values, ‘women’s work’ and labour. Maier is interested in manipulating a locations expected function and pushing beyond the original intentions such as; home/gallery, village notice board/exhibition venue, model space/public artwork site, domestic /institutional space.

For more info about Danica go to http://www.danicamaier.com

This podcast also features music by Haiku Salut, who are a three piece band based in Derbyshire. To find out more about them visit www.haikusalut.com/

Geoff Litherland in conversation with Wolfgang Buttress. Wolfgang is an Award winning artist working with public space. He creates elegant and contextually rich public artworks, which seek to define and highlight our relationship to the natural world. Wolfgang talks about his artistic journey and motivations for making work.

The podcast also includes music by BE, BE is the collective name for the musicians who recorded the soundscape for Wolfgang Buttress’s multi-award-winning sculpture The Hive which is currently sited at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Hive seeks to highlight the importance of the honey bee in our food chain and their plight as a species.

For more info about Wolfgang Buttress and BE visit http://www.wolfgangbuttress.com/

Stone, landscape and geology in modern British sculpture Dr Robert Burstow is an academic researcher and author, an independent exhibition curator and a Reader in History and Theory of Art at the

University of Derby. His research focuses on the history and theory of

20th century British sculpture and is widely published, most recently in British Art in the Nuclear Age.

The podcast features sound recordings from the Oblique Cartographies Sound Walk App

itunes.apple.com/us/app/oblique-c…d1145020772?mt=8

The podcast also features music by A Drysalter

@adrysalter

Penny McCarthy - My Fakes and Counterfeits presenting on on-going work examining the archaeology of the facsimile. Penny McCarthy is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Beginning her career as a Henry Moore Fellow in Drawing she has exhibited extensively. Her picture essay Time will Darken Paper was commissioned

for Esopus (New York) issue 21, 2014. Mirror, an essay reflecting on the

relations between memory and making, is included in the book Memories of the Future.

http://www.pennymccarthy.com/

The podcast also features "In the beginning there was this" and "Its nice in here" two beautiful ambient minimal tracks by Jim Cornick.

https://www.jimcornick.co.uk/