Jurassic Moon

We called it Monster Field for obvious reasons - Upon the surface of it's green acres which flowed curiously like a wide river over the uplands, there jutted up, as if wading across the tide, two stark objects. They were the remains of two trees, elms, I think, felled by lightning during a furious storm some years ago. So violent had been their over throw that utterly, the roots of one had been torn out of the ground. The other had broken off from a splintered shaft upon which it was leaning, it's great limbs splintered backwards over the grass. 

Paul Nash - Monster Fields, 1939

Storytelling is an ancient social activity through which human existence is explored and fears and emotions are expressed and shared. Our habitat is constantly changing, how we understand ourselves and events that occur is partly through our perception of the landscape. Our experiences of the ever changing world can be shared and remembered through stories which are passed on and evolve over time. 

The lived reality of an age leaves traces on our physical and psychological landscape - through roads, walls and borders built, trees felled, buildings destroyed and constructed and also through the stories that are passed down from one generation to the next.

Jurassic Moon draws together artists whose work explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and their habitat. 

Caraboo Projects, 2019

Dorcas Casey, Juan del Gado, Oliver McConnie, Mary Roberts-Holmes, Charlie Morris