2021 - 2024
Forest Play Lab is a creative metholodology and artist research project with Michael Tan (Singapore).
After meeting in early 2021 during a training course to become Shinrin Yoku (forest bathing) leaders, we collaborated to explore the potential of artmaking within natural environments - considering themes of care, play, healing and wellbeing.
During walks in the Peak District, Northern England, we experimented with ways to respond to place, inventing a poetic version of ‘hide and seek’.
Both hiding and seeking provide moments of intimacy with the living world - offering a closer connection with the earth and utilising the practice of Shinrin Yoku as an artistic act.
The resulting photographic images are a documentation of this process, which also invite the viewer to share in these moments of stillness.
Photographs from this series were exhibited in the Ride Your Pony exhibition, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, UK between October - November 2021.
