Art inspired by wild woods and nightingales at Rye

A NEW audio-visual installation by Rye-based artist Anny Evason combines sound and large-scale artworks to evoke a powerful sense of nature and to challenge our common perception of gardens and outside spaces.
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The piece, A Garden Enclosed – Lines of Exploration, is the result of a collaboration between Evason and Jamie Griffiths, a digital media artist, who is providing the soundtrack.

It is being unveiled at a private viewing on Thursday 11 April at 5.30pm at The School Creative Centre in Rye, after which it will be open to the public daily from 10am - 5pm until 14 April.

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“Receiving funding from the arts council last year has enabled me to develop this project over the past few months,” Evason explains.

“Research has been quite broad based, covering early medieval gardens, the history of wild wood and ancient forest in Europe, the human impact on woodland habitats and the resulting reduction in bird numbers and species. I am fascinated by the changing natural soundscape of rural areas throughout the world, the nature of nightingales, fairy stories and mythology associated with forests and woodland communities, the chestnut woods of France and the music of Purcell and Messiaen.”