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Matt Carmichael | Auditorium
19:30 - 22:00
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Sat 7 Feb
Matt Carmichael | Auditorium
19:30 - 22:00
Doors Open 19:00
The exhibition departs from the practice of propagating trees by grafting, taught by the artist’s father. In muted conversation with philosophers, plant biologists and growers, Rowan Lear considers ideas of inheritance and evolution, straightening devices and mingled bodies.
The installation gleams with the dazzling green of cambium, the layer of stem cells in woody plants from which roots and shoots grow.
Designed to disorient, A sudden branching revels in the intelligence, resilience, and audacity of vegetal life.
A sudden branching grows out of a period of residency at Birnam Arts earlier this year, during which Rowan experimented with darkroom processes and new ceramic techniques and spent time in the fields, forests, and orchards around Birnam and Dunkeld. The exhibition includes a reading nook, where visitors can pause and read related books and articles.
Events Meet The Artist Saturday 14 August & Saturday 28 August, 11am - 1pm, Birnam Arts, All ages, Free, drop-in.
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Pop in to the Foyer Cafe for breakfast, grab a delicious coffee with a selection of our homemade baking or enjoy a light lunch whilst browsing on the free WiFi. Wander upstairs to view the latest of our monthly art exhibitions before visiting the world of Beatrix Potter, or the Gift Shop to purchase a special gift for your loved ones or yourself!
We had not planned to present a hybrid festival, however that changed when one of our main authors tested positive for Covid. I greatly appreciated how the team worked with us to pivot and present remotely in part, making full use of your enhanced video conferencing equipment. As a result, we were able to deliver quite complex events with several elements all showing on screen simultaneously. The audio-visual quality was excellent, and our audiences were delighted that these events could still go ahead, in spite of Covid. The author in question was really pleased that he could join us on screen and remarked that he had not been so well supported in this way at any other festival.
Fiona Ritchie | Birnam Book Festival 2022
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