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Project Wonderlands _________________________ Nature in Urban Environments ____________________________________________ An interdisciplinary body of environmental art works and ongoing participatory projects connecting conceptual art, nature and therapy. People, projects and places: 'every piece is part of the whole.' ________________________________ THIS WEBSITE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

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"FINDING BALANCE"

2021 .

A post Covid commission and residency during Mental Health Week in Nene Park for Peterborough Presents working with Keely Mills after a year-long period of lockdown and Covid19 restrictions. This project was a continuum of barefoot walking projects first started in 2009 at the park with Peterborough Presents but now aimed to help bring people back to some sort of equilibrium and mind/body balance after such a tumultuous year by using short grounding techniques and mindful barefoot walking practices.

The project has come together with this online exhibition, blog, film after the "walkshops" and weekend residency and a mini outdoor photography installation at Nene Park also.

For all the info see Peterborough Presents here

Peterborough Presents Barefoot Walking blog

Nene Park Peterborough

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Commissioned by Peterborough Presents for Nene Park for Mental Health Week 2021 almost a year after Covid 19 and the easing of lockdown restrictions.

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HEDGESANDEDGES

“THE MISSING PIECE AND THE PORTAL.”

- An open dialogue collaboration between artists Katy Hawkins and Sandra Keating on everything that is hedges. Born out of lockdown 2021 the explorations, idiosyncratic musings and visual observations have no framework or ... Independently making connections from the more rural to urban perspectives. - Katy and Sandra have been working together since 2016…

https://hedgesandedges.tumblr.com/

Lockdown newsletter 2020

“Off-the Beaten Path”

Notes from a ‘Grounding’ Participant.

Commission for Peterborough Presents at Nene Park Peterborough.

Summer 2019

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2020

Peterborough Presents “Noticing Our Neighbourhoods”

Photography Exhibition part of the Bretton Mindful Photo walk with participant winners.

Winter 2018

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Walk details

Accompanying video COMING SOON

Woodchip grounding Video made for “Touching Nature” exhibition.

Waterlow Park, North London

2020

#barefootwalking #grounding #environmentalarttherapy

GROUNDING IN WATERLOW PARK ~ A note on catharsis 2020

Part of “Touching Nature” an Environmental Art Therapy group show, Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park North London.

“Grounding in Waterlow Park- A Note on Catharsis 2020” is a photographic series part of an ongoing body of barefoot works, conceptual practises and mindful “walkshops” that I’ve been producing over the last few years exploring the physical, mental, emotional and physiological effects of grounding.

For “Touching Nature” I have chosen to produce some site-specific photographic visuals from videos made during a 2020 September afternoon spent Grounding in Waterlow Park. My intention for this show was for viewers to not only connect to the work visually but physically also by having a small patch of grass to stand on barefoot within the gallery. A viewing platform, also known as a small “tuft of earth” as it were - ultimately bringing the outside in.

However, with current restrictions this is not possible and to use this to my advantage I have produced other visuals using the same tuft of earth from Waterlow Park in another gallery setting. To take the place of this ‘viewing platform’ within Lauderdale House, in front of the main artwork you will see a small taped area on the floor. You are invited to mindfully stand in place, to close your eyes, take some deep breaths and visualise yourself barefoot on the cool, soft, earth. Visualise yourself touching nature, put yourself in the centre of this piece, imagine this is you before slowly opening your eyes, softening your gaze to view the main artwork.