Westonbirt International Festival of the Garden 2004
Westonbirt International Festival of the Garden 2004
Westonbirt Arboretum enjoys a unique role as a focus for conservation and research. It is in this environment that Claire Barber was commissioned to research, explore and respond to the arboretums collections and environment. The main aims of the commission brief was to develop a wider appreciation of the arts within the forest/rural context and to create an interesting and challenging work that could stimulate debate and reconsideration of the collection at Westonbirt. Claire Barber in her installation 'Stepping Lightly on 88 Pillows' makes us aware that our single intervention, however small, on the rural environment can be significant. The work has been conceived to be located by a regularly-used pathway through the Arboretum, not on the pathway but alongside it, as a reminder of the difference between the human areas of the Arboretum and the trees' own environment.
Barber, C.L.
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Wilkinson, Sam
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Holstein, Sarah von
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Barber, C.L.
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Wilkinson, Sam
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Holstein, Sarah von
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Barber, C.L., Wilkinson, Sam and Holstein, Sarah von
(2004)
Westonbirt International Festival of the Garden 2004.
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Westonbirt Arboretum enjoys a unique role as a focus for conservation and research. It is in this environment that Claire Barber was commissioned to research, explore and respond to the arboretums collections and environment. The main aims of the commission brief was to develop a wider appreciation of the arts within the forest/rural context and to create an interesting and challenging work that could stimulate debate and reconsideration of the collection at Westonbirt. Claire Barber in her installation 'Stepping Lightly on 88 Pillows' makes us aware that our single intervention, however small, on the rural environment can be significant. The work has been conceived to be located by a regularly-used pathway through the Arboretum, not on the pathway but alongside it, as a reminder of the difference between the human areas of the Arboretum and the trees' own environment.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2004
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Local EPrints ID: 153895
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/153895
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Artist:
C.L. Barber
Curator of an exhibition:
Sam Wilkinson
Curator of an exhibition:
Sarah von Holstein
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