Welcome to series 5, episode 1 of the Prompted by Nature podcast!
Action point: Go to RSPB, Wildlife Trust and sign the petition/email your MP regarding the changes in law regarding:
- Lifting the ban on fracking in England
- Removing important laws that protect nature
- Considering scrapping plans to reward farmers for managing land in a nature-friendly way
https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rspb-news/rspb-news-stories/uk-government-attack-on-nature/?from=hphero
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/get-involved/our-campaigns/defend-nature
Onto the episode…
Bryony Benge-Abbott is an interdisciplinary artist working closely with scientists, activists and community groups to explore our relationship to the natural world. She explores the potential for art to transform our relationship to nature can be unearthed in the space where science, social justice and spirituality meet?
We talk about:
- The intersections that exist in the ways that we approach nature and what these mean to her
- The capacity for art to explore these intersections
- How her artistic practice started and how it developed
- The ways in which her work at museums has enriched her creative practice
- Her work around Pre-Raphelites and how this gave rise to her work on ‘gaze’ and natural world
- What climate anxiety did for her creativity
- Art as ritual space
- Bryony’s Colour of Transformation project and how the life cycle of a butterfly inspired this work
- How Bryony’s for has developed as a result of working with different practitioners in Colour of Transformation
- How her connection to nature influences her creativity
- Her vision for the future
- Her hope for the future
You can find Bryony on her website https://bryonybengeabbott.com where you can also find out about her Colour of Transformation project, on Twitter @BryonyBA and on Insta @bryonybengeabbott
As always, I'm at www.promptedbynature.co.uk and on Insta @prompted.by.nature as well as Twitter @promptedxnature
Happy listening!
Helen x
