HOME (Manchester Centre for International Contemporary Culture) is delighted to present Fieldnotes by artist, maker, educator and climate activist Brigitte Jurack, her largest solo show to date.
Bringing together works produced in the UK, Spain and India over the last 5 years, her multimedia art practice spans ceramic sculpture, drawing, collaborative happenings and video. Her works stem from a longstanding interest in mythology and fables and express a reverence for the natural world and environmental sustainability; craft and labour, as well as speaking to the extraordinary current times.
The key works in the exhibition will include Best done in winter (2021), a regular programme of skep making workshops. Visitors will be invited to learn to make straw beehives used in medieval farming, now superseded by modern day box hives.
The project calls into question the impact of industrial-scale agri-chemical farming on biodiversity and interdependency of species, pollination and the importance of crop rotation in food production, through a reengagement with this endangered craft.
A series of photographs Spring (Los Gázquez),2018 and Wadi Walks, Cities can Dream (2022) reference the different ways in which water has become an increasingly scarce natural resource. Produced in two vastly different European climates, Dovestones, Greater Manchester and one of the most arid, Joya in heart of the Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park, Spain, the works depict farmland where demand for water has exceeded supply, and due to climate change and decreased rainfall, can no longer operate. Here, Jurack has documented collaborative happenings with students, conceived not as performances but intuitively choreographed actions in a homage to water reimagining our relationship to landscape.
Curated by: HOME. Produced by HOME & Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Exhibition date: Current and until 29 Jan 2023
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