CONVERSATIONS WITH CREATIVES:

Reading Landscapes

This session examines how we can read and respond to landscapes—foraging responsibly, tracing colonial and ecological histories and uncovering new perspectives on place. Through their distinct yet related practices, our guests share how their work invites us to converse with the land, honour its stories and reimagine our landscapes in a more-than-human world.

Joseph Orpen is a craftsman specialising in rural traditions—hedgelaying, Devon bank restoration and dry-stone walling—working from his base in Devon. His practice sustains and renews landscape heritage with hands-on ecological care and deep-rooted skills

Avery Gregory lives and works in the western United States where she creates meticulously curated assemblages of found stones. Her “stone studies” explore the interplay of permanence and transience, drawing attention to the quiet, entropic beauty of the Earth .

Heather 'Bird' Harris is an artist and educator based in Atlanta. She works with foraged earth pigments—soil, clay, deconstructed bricks—to paint abstract landscapes that foreground land memory, ecological crisis and the entangled history of place .

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Collection I
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Get anytime access to Part One of our Conversations with Creatives series: Awakening Wonder • Reading Landscapes • Reinterpreting Waste • Sensory Storytelling • Visual Alchemy

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Collection II
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Get anytime access to Part Two of our Conversations with Creatives series: Active Earth • Elevated Perspectives • Material Worlds • Nature Palettes • Seeing Beyond the Human

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