Concertina landscapes - Anna Baker

What matters to you about the land that surrounds you every day? What is precious about it? What would you hate to lose?

Last year (2024) artist, Anna Baker, began a collaborative, creative project centred around what the land means to a variety of different people, as well reflecting on what it means in her own life. It started when a proposal was put forward to build houses on a piece of treasured green space in her own village.

She brought together artists, makers and creatives, and people from all different ages and backgrounds and locations, to explore thoughts and feelings about the land.

These conversations resulted in concertina journals being made - small, landscape booklets packed with interpretations of what our sacred spaces mean to us. It also resulted in a wonderful exhibition last year as part of Somerset Art Weeks.

Our Jenna Myles collaborated with Anna on the concertina journal you see here. Anna created it in response to Jenna's poem 'Preserved'.

Want to hear more? In their latest conversation, Jenna catches up with Anna about the project and how it's evolving. Anna reflects on some of her project memories, and Jenna sees the 'preserved' journal for the first time in the flesh! There's some exciting news too, as the journal travels to the Bath Arts Fringe.

Take a listen by pressing play below:

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