Towards Light.
Towards Light was created over 2020-2021, inspired by the urgent need to re-think the way humans relate to nature. It explored the subject with a moths-eye view, to re-imagine the way we accompany non-human species.
It was a collaboration between Katherine Pogson and Claire Shovelton, starting as a film exhibit at Lumen Gallery Bethnal Green, London, and inspiring CHROMA’s music, art and lepidoptery project with the community of Fair Isle in September 2021. The film was also exhibited at Proposition Studios Camden, London in 2023.
Towards Light in Fair Isle
23 Sep - 1 Oct 2021
Towards Light : the film
as exhibited at Lumen Gallery Bethnal Green August 2021
Pictures from an exhibition: Towards Light as part of Places to Intervene in a System
Lumen Gallery at St John’s on Bethnal Green. August 2021.
Towards Light Notebook.
Collaborators.
Katherine Pogson
PhD researcher Centre for Sustainable Fashion "How can fashion artefacts reconnect us with nature?" London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.
Katherine and I met whilst reading our drama degrees at university in 1985 and have been heading out on adventures together ever since.
CHROMA
Award-winning London-based flexible chamber ensemble.
I have been producing this collective of top-notch freelance musicians since 2002, in creative partnership with the ensemble’s artistic director Stuart King.
Fair Isle Community
The UK’s most remote inhabited island, 24 miles south of mainland Shetland, with a permanent population of 60 people. An island of many musicians, artists and makers, which I have been visiting since 2006. The Towards Light team were there 24 September - 1 October 2021.
Towards Light was supported by:
Classic Fair Isle
The Chapman Trust
The Hugh Fraser Foundation
The Hope Scott Trust
The William Syson Foundation
Photo of Katherine Pogson in her studio by Julian Calder