An exploration of landscape through art, conversation and an immersive guided walk with Becki Zaffino & Empty_Space Gallery in Holme village

Summary of the event

We will meet at Empty_Space Gallery at 10am to view the exhibition and hear Becki Zaffino talk about the work on display.

Taking inspiration from this, we will then leave the gallery at 11am on a guided walk around the upper parts of the Holme Valley. Lasting around 1.5hrs, we will meander and explore the landscape through our own fields of perception.

We will return to the gallery for warming drinks and cakes allwoing time for reflection , coversation and to view the exhibition at your own leisure.

The Common Ground(s) exhibition

Common Ground(s) brings together seven artists whose practices engage with landscape, place, material and environment through very different approaches. The exhibition began with Steve Dilworth's Lapwing, a work that prompted an interest in the ways materials carry histories, traces and associations and in the possibilities that emerge when overlooked materials are given renewed attention.

From this starting point, the exhibition developed as a visual conversation between practices that respond to the physical world through making, collecting, drawing, painting, sculpture and material experimentation. The artists do not share a single understanding of landscape or environment. Instead, their differences create points of connection: between natural and manufactured materials, permanence and change, observation and intervention, the individual experience of place and the wider environments we share.

Common Ground(s) considers landscape not simply as something to be depicted, but as something lived, encountered and continually transformed. The works invite attention to the material world around us and to the traces through which places reveal their histories. Together, they ask how artistic practice might alter the way we look at the environments we inhabit and what might become visible when we look more closely.

The Walk - Approx 2 miles

The walk is classed as easy and on well trodden footpaths, although some of the terrain is uneven and steep in places. We will be walking and stopping to take in the landscape, so we will be out for around 1.5hrs. As always come prepared for the winter weather and terrain, bringing snacks and hydration for your walk if you wish. (You can leave your walking boots in the car whilst in the gallery)

Gear & clothing

Please pack and wear suitable clothing for the weather on the day.

You will need:

Suitable clothes, boots and layers for walking on the day

Drink & snacks (if you wish)

Coat / layers

Please make sure you wear sturdy footwear

Lunch

Lunch is not included in this event. However, drinks and cakes are being served at the Gallery when we return from the walk around 12:30pm. Feel free to bring your own packed breakfast/lunch and snacks to keep you fuelled!

Rendezvous, parking & getting there

Rendezvous - 10:00AM meet & talk - Walk departs at 11AM

Our meeting point is at Empty_Space Gallery, Meal Hill Road, Holme village, Holmfirth. As you come into the village (from Holmfirth) turn right onto the large cobbed area, the gallery can be found 100m up Meal Hill Road on the right, opposite a little playpark, it has a large grey sliding door with a smalll pink sign above saying Empty.

Parking is available in the village centre or opposite Holme village Infant & Junior School. Please park responsibly and be mindful of residents keeping accesses clear.

Care share - please care share wherever you can. Please join the whatsapp group to arrange car sharing and for further info here... https://goodfooting.co.uk/community-group

Public transport - there is a bus route to Holme village. Please check Sunday times!

Contact: If you have any questions before the event please email: hi@goodfooting.co.uk

If you are late or have any issues on the day please contact Danny on: 07966141555

Look forward to seeing you then!

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