‘Remember Nature’ Residency with Dartington Arts School Returns to Somerset
‘Remember Nature’ Residency with Dartington Arts School, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2022. Photo: Clare Walsh
‘Remember Nature’ Residency with Dartington Arts School Returns to Somerset
From Monday 25 September – Friday 6 October 2023, Hauser & Wirth Somerset hosted a two-week residency for a second year with students from the Arts and Place MA course at Dartington Arts School in Devon, UK. The resident artists, Rosie May Jones and Liz Horn, developed work responding to the theme of ‘Remember Nature,’ a project by artist and activist Gustav Metzger.
As part of this year’s residency, Hauser & Wirth Somerset hosted studio drop-in sessions in the Education Lab, where members of the public met the two residency students, engaged with their work and shared stories to inform their practice and research. These studio drop-ins took place throughout the residency, culminating in a community event.
‘Remember Nature’ Residency with Dartington Arts School, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2022. Photo: Clare Walsh
About the Artists
Rosie May Jones is a multidisciplinary artist and poet, specializing in spoken word, with a background in traditional oral storytelling. She creates performances and visual narratives based on folklore, as well as historical and contemporary accounts. Her work explores social and environmental issues, such as land rights, housing and our connection to the natural world.
Liz Horn is an interdisciplinary visual artist and researcher working in London and Yorkshire. Her work includes drawing, print, film and installation, exploring borders and displacement, erasure and memorialisation.
About The Gustav Metzger Foundation Scholarship
Gustav Metzger came to the UK in 1939 as a refugee before dedicating his entire creative practice to social activism and challenging our perception of public art as a vehicle for change. His life-long activism to combat environmental destruction was fundamental to his provocative questioning of the role of the artist in society.
Following Hauser & Wirth Somerset’s inaugural exhibition of Gustav Metzger’s work in 2021, the gallery launched the ‘Gustav Metzger Foundation Scholarship’ in 2022. The scholarship supported a student with refugee status to study with Dartington Arts School on the Arts and Place MA Course. This collaboration was part of Hauser & Wirth’s ongoing commitment to providing opportunities for equal access to higher education. Moreover, the scholarship established meaningful connections to continue Metzger’s legacy and vision. The partnership took place between 2022 – 2023, with Raman Feiz, becoming the recipient of the 2022 Gustav Metzger Scholarship who studied his MA degree at Dartington part-time over two years.
Installation view, ‘Gustav Metzger,’ Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2021. Photo: Ken Adlard
About ‘Remember Nature’
The ‘Remember Nature’ project was instigated by Gustav Metzger on 4 November 2015. Arts practitioners and students around the world were encouraged to participate in a Day of Action addressing global issues such as extinction, climate change and environmental pollution.
About Dartington Arts School
Dartington Arts School, which is now known as the Dartington Trust, is a center for learning, arts, ecology and social justice based on a 1,200-acre estate near Totnes, Devon, UK. The Arts and Place MA Course, which ran from 2010 – 2024, was a transdisciplinary residency-based program focusing on the complexities of the field as a place of practice, exploring its imaginative and material processes. Gustav Metzger was awarded an Honorary Fellow of Dartington Arts School in 2001 and was part of a rich interdisciplinary community of staff and students working to be change-agents for a sustainable future. Metzger had a profound insight into our relationship and interdependency with nature. Whilst at Dartington, he spoke extensively about his environmental concerns.
‘Remember Nature’ Residency with Dartington Arts School, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2022. Photo: Clare Walsh
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