by Ruby Taylor | Dec 2, 2024 | All Journal Entries, plant fibres
One winter, the East Sussex Archaeology and Museums Partnership team, led by Christabel Shelley and Ian Dunford, constructed a beautiful dwelling, influenced by archaeological findings at Deer Park Farms in County Antrim, Ireland, an early rath (ringfort or settlement...
by Ruby Taylor | Jan 7, 2023 | All Journal Entries, plant fibres
A photgraphic essay. Weaving bramble baskets in the woods, I’m joined by photographer Bethany Hobbs. These are her words and images, her story of our day. The humble bramble, the scratcher, the snarer, the snagger of jumpers, the bearer of tongue-staining fruit,...
by Ruby Taylor | Jun 16, 2021 | All Journal Entries, plant fibres
I talk with the founder of Plants & Colour, Flora Arbuthnott, about how I approach working with wild gathered materials in my creative practice. Intimacy with the landscape, the living world, plants, earth, other creatures, has always been meaningful to me as a...
by Ruby Taylor | Mar 9, 2017 | All Journal Entries, plant fibres
‘Plants are integral to reweaving the connection between land and people. A place becomes a home when it sustains you, when it feeds you in body as well as spirit.’ Robin Wall Kimmerer There’s an arable field margin under two ancient oaks that is species-rich with...
by Ruby Taylor | Oct 28, 2015 | All Journal Entries, Wakehurst: artist in residence
I’ve returned to Wakehurst on a sunny autumn day to see if the rumours are true. One of my areas of research for this project was looking at nests, and I’ve heard that birds have nested in the work I made here. My godson showed me a blurry photo on his...
by Ruby Taylor | Dec 21, 2014 | All Journal Entries, Wakehurst: artist in residence
The Green Bough. “Keep a green bough in your heart and a singing bird will come” Lao Tzu. It’s mid December, a bright cold day, and I’m back at Wakehurst to collect the written messages tied to the wattled walls of the timber-framed building...