Held by the Path
‘Held by the Path’ explores how we interact with, resonate with and create memories associated with walking, experiencing and archiving landscapes. This project was rooted in a site-specific study of Ardgartan Forest in Argyll Forest Park and resulted in a comprehensive publication that detailed my entire experience surrounding the environment.
I visited the site on multiple occasions, each time walking the paths, forests and beaches, slowly building up an extensive body of work that spanned multiple mediums. I explored historical records and maps to contextualise the location, mapped my journeys to and from, sketched and photographed the environment, used field research books to create small-scale bio-inventories of species I observed, created writings and produced works away from the location such as stitched and knitted pieces and printing works such as etchings. Overall, this book became a very personal project, pursuing the aspects I enjoy as an artist and in my life, aiming to express this emotion and memory of my experiences through the work and through the final publication.
