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ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION - Embodying ecosystem: Attuning to the agricultural system of common flax or sourcing wild flax from the garden. Artists Geoff Diego Litherland and Ilka White with curator Patricia Brien.

These three artists engage with the entire material process in their concept and artistic development. Geoff Diego Litherland has a particular interest in using slow, pre-industrial craft processes to create natural canvas materials grown from the earth. This led to a collaboration with his partner, weave designer Angharad McLaren, where they sowed, nurtured, and harvested a crop of flax plants which was then hand woven into the patterned linen canvas, which was primed and painted on by the artist. 

Ilka White is drawn to anything that re-affirms human connections to miraculous ecosystems. The web utilises materials gleaned as close-by as possible which translated into her garden and her own body. As she gathered material, spun and wove, her thoughts were directed to plant and animal interactions, shamanic protections and weavers of other species. It is in the context of community sufficiency, order and chaos, post-oil futures and deep time that this work has emerged.