Are You Lost?
Are You Lost?
Podcast Description
The Are You Lost? podcast is hosted by Bowland artist and writer Rob St. John. Its offers glimpses into the Are You Lost? project as it develops through 2025, inviting a range of guests to partake in conversations about art, nature, community and countryside access.
Are You Lost? will be a series of film, sound and textile installations across Bowland which highlight the diverse voices and perspectives of the communities that live around the area. A festival series of temporary installations will be created across the National Landscape, both in accessible public spaces and in more remote, largely-unused spaces in 2025. Rob will be working with producers Lancaster Arts & Blaze Arts.
Rob is an artist and writer based in Lancashire. His practice is focused on the blurring of nature and culture in contemporary landscapes. He works across sound, moving image, text and installation. His work has been shown and heard at Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Barbican, The British Museum and many others. Rob will be working with young people from around Burnley and its surrounding towns.
Are You Lost? is part of Nature Calling, a national programme, run by the National Landscapes Association, in partnership with Activate and supported by the Poetry School and funded by Arts Council England and Defra.
https://www.naturecalling.org.uk/rob-st-john
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Content Themes
The podcast explores themes of art, nature, community, and access, featuring episodes that delve into topics like local histories, community engagement in nature, and collaborative creative practices, such as the episode with historian Nick Burton discussing Pendle's radical histories and the episode featuring students from Marsden Heights Community College discussing their connections to nature.
The Are You Lost? podcast is hosted by Bowland artist and writer Rob St. John. Its offers glimpses into the Are You Lost? project as it develops through 2025, inviting a range of guests to partake in conversations about art, nature, community and countryside access.
Are You Lost? will be a series of film, sound and textile installations across Bowland which highlight the diverse voices and perspectives of the communities that live around the area. A festival series of temporary installations will be created across the National Landscape, both in accessible public spaces and in more remote, largely-unused spaces in 2025. Rob will be working with producers Lancaster Arts & Blaze Arts.
Rob is an artist and writer based in Lancashire. His practice is focused on the blurring of nature and culture in contemporary landscapes. He works across sound, moving image, text and installation. His work has been shown and heard at Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Barbican, The British Museum and many others. Rob will be working with young people from around Burnley and its surrounding towns.
Are You Lost? is part of Nature Calling, a national programme, run by the National Landscapes Association, in partnership with Activate and supported by the Poetry School and funded by Arts Council England and Defra.
https://www.naturecalling.org.uk/rob-st-john
Rob chats to creative partner Kate O’Farrell about the creation of the textile pieces in Are You Lost?
Her work draws from the cotton mill weaving practices of East Lancashire, the textile traditions of Gujarat, where a significant diaspora in Nelson is from, and natural materials and processes derived from the Bowland landscape. Fabrication techniques include spinning, embroidery, wet and dry felting, botanical contact printing, rust printing and natural dyeing using gorse, bracken, rowan, birch, oak and peat. One piece has been created from felted wool gathered from Bowland farms, whilst the others are based on hand-woven cotton khadi made by artisan weavers in Gujurat.
Greystones Textiles: https://www.greystonestextiles.co.uk/
Resources:
Gandhi in Bowland: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-15020097
Bowland’s Felt Hats and the Slave Trade: https://lahs.archaeologyuk.org/Contrebis/Workman%20Lancaster%20hats%20.pdf
Facing the Past in Lancaster: https://www.facingthepast.org/
Documenting the exploitation of enslaved people by Lancashire traders: https://blackhistory.shareyourstories.live/history/every-lancashire-slave-owner-and-how-much-compensation-they-received-from-the-abolition/
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