Marking the Glade

Marking the Glade

Site-responsive installation and drawing, Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens, 2024

Marking the Glade was the third phase of an ongoing exploration at Cheeseburn Sculpture Gardens, returning to ideas of walking, drawing and attention through a more subtle form of intervention. Set within a woodland glade, the work used painted pink logs and branches positioned along a walking route to draw attention towards overlooked details within the landscape.

The marks acted as quiet invitations rather than instructions, encouraging visitors to slow their pace and notice changes in light, ground texture, vegetation and sound. The work shaped an experience of the glade through movement and observation, continuing my interest in how small interventions can alter our relationship with familiar places.

The route led visitors through the woodland towards a bench where a large-scale drawing was revealed. Based on a geological thin-section slide of stone, the drawing translated microscopic mineral structures into an immersive visual experience, connecting bodily movement through landscape with the deep geological histories held within materials.

Bringing together walking, marking and drawing, the work explored landscape as an active space of encounter rather than a passive setting. It continued my ongoing enquiry into how sustained attention can reveal relationships between human experience, material presence and geological time.