This is a collection of works from the solo exhibition titled Summer's End
The stunning and impactful selection of work on show is from a larger series made during an artist residency at Llwyn Celyn in the Llanthony Valley, Wales. The residency was with The landmark Trust and Peak in the Black Mountains and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Much inspired by Rupert Sheldrake and his hypothesis of the universe, Summer's End explores the idea of collective recollection. Sheldrake suggests that natural systems such as plants, have a collective memory from all previous things of their kind. He is saying that within the landscape there is memory, a collective recollection that encompass earlier beings.
Footsteps wear a path into the landscape, a human presence is marked through the physical abrasion of their presence. When the land has been left undisturbed, or a path stops being walked, do the plants remember it? As we take time to consider the outdoors, smell the roses, do the plants we take time to consider, consider us back?
Toril Brancher is featured in Gardens Illustrated, text by Sarah Price, Chelsea Gold winner.