I’m in a new film – Cley Marshes

See me speaking about the history of landscape painting in North Norfolk in the new film Cley Marshes: A Wild Vision, produced bycley film David North for the Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Cley Marshes Appeal. If you are visiting Norwich in September, do pop in to the Forum to see this inspiring film featuring Bill Oddie, wildlife experts, artists and others sharing their stories of this special place.

The NWT is the oldest of a national network of wildlife trusts.  The 400 acres of Cley Marshes were purchased by Dr Sydney Long in 1926. Long went on to found the Norfolk Wildlife Trust with Cley becoming the Trust’s first nature reserve. For generations this site has enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a superb site for watching birds and experiencing nature. The appeal is raising funds to purchase an additional 143 acres – this is a unique opportunity to ensure that coastal land from Blakeney Point to Kelling would all become one continuous nature reserve. Find out more about my landscape art project, Spirit of Place.

Role-play at the Biennale

Nicola Costantino, Rapsodia inconclusa [Unfinished Rhapsody]: Eva el espejo [Eva the Mirror], detail of installation Argentina Pavilion: Eva - Argentina, 55th Venice Biennale 2013. Copyright the artist, reproduced with permission.
Nicola Costantino, Rapsodia inconclusa [Unfinished Rhapsody]: Eva el espejo [Eva the Mirror], detail of installation Argentina Pavilion: Eva – Argentina, 55th Venice Biennale 2013. Copyright the artist, reproduced with permission

Nicola Costantino’s, Rapsodia inconclusa [Unfinished Rhapsody], is an installation currently showing at the Argentina Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, which uses digital video to speak of the nation’s continuing attempts to make sense of a turbulent 20th-C political history. At the heart of this work is the controversial and emotionally-charged character of Eva Peron, the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Read about Nicola Costantino’s work in my article this month for the BCS:http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/51225