what it is to be there
By
Helen Acklam
2022
- Sculpture
- Installation Art
- Painting
- Film and Video
- Sound Art
- Mixed Media
- Heritage & Archives
- Spiritual & Philosophical
- Personal Narratives & Identity
- Social & Political
- Health & Wellness
- Embodied Practice
- Site-Specificity
- Maternal Body
- Earthwork
- Materiality
- Embodied Processes
- Embodied Somatic Practice
- Feminist Practice
- Grief
- Mourning
Dimensions
variable - this installation was within a 80' x 10' attic gallery
Installation of site-specific work exploring grief shame and place. The work was made over the course of a year when I returned to the Garw Valley to dig into the earth and into my past. I discovered what ‘disenfranchised’ feelings and experiences meant through my embodied engagement with already meaningful materials - the soil and clay. This work and research was made possible thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and the Brigstow Institute.
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