Why Artists need Trees. A-Z
with Grace Adam
A-Z
A voiced downloadable talk.
With each letter, we’ll visit a different painting, photograph, sculpture or installation. Focussing on modern and contemporary interpretations, we’ll travel through the alphabet, and round the globe. May Blossom, broken stumps, ancient Oaks, fallen giants and forgotten park inhabitants. See and hear how artists have cast, painted, wrapped, uprooted and submerged trees, exploring and celebrating their forms, locations and meanings.
Contributor
Grace Adam is an artist and lecturer. She makes work about our constructed spaces; domestic, public and shared. She teaches at Chelsea College of Art, and trained as a painter. She has an M.A. in Sculpture and Installation from Chelsea College of Arts. She was Fellow at Chelsea, and holds a PGCert.
She is co creator and presenter on The Art Channel where she makes independent reviews, recent films include Anish Kapoor at Houghton Hall, and Bruse Nauman at Tate.
Other teaching and workshops include: The Royal Academy of Arts, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery, The Courtauld, Tate and the National Portrait Gallery.
In her own practice, she explores our environments, how we build, negotiate and use them, as well as concepts of the everyday. Adam exhibits regularly and has been Artist in Residence at institutions including St Giles in the Fields Church, Museum of Domestic Architecture, Whitechapel Gallery, HMP Prison Gartree, The Gibberd Trust, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada as well as many schools and colleges. Site-specific Installations include Out of the Woods, the Act & Art of Remembrance, and a Socially Distanced Bench.
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