Sophie Standford

In the Forest Garden
A Rural Idyll
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
Trace
Photomontage
Performative Drawing
Act of Listening
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In the Forest Garden Selected Works

In the Forest Garden is an ongoing project, initiated in 2015, turning a patch of grass into an edible, biodiverse system of trees, shrubs and perennial plants which together mimic the woodland edge, creating a sustainable type of ecosystem in East Anglia. It has been developed through the practice of quiet activism; an act of protest and resistance against the demands of extraction and extinction associated with perpetual growth and expansion. 

In the Forest Garden is a proposition, a resource, a developing concept, a place to imagine and perform. A space full of contradiction, where time confuses and dissipates. A site to interrogate the relationship between nature and culture, wilderness and order, freedom and control, through documentation, performative acts and interventions. Here many different species gather and pass; an active dialogue with living material under the open sky.

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