RIPPON

Two makers share place, practice and materials

22 October 2022 - 7 January 2023

Printmaker Anita Reynolds and ceramicist Kate Lyons-Miller share place, practice and materials 

“A sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together” 

Rebecca Solnit (Savage Dreams) 

Kate lives on Dartmoor, her studio is nestled within the eastern moor. Anita lives in Totnes and the same granite outcrops are visible from her hillside studio. Rippon Tor sits between the two makers’ studios and became the meeting point for this year long collaboration.

Scorched gorse, moon jars, vessels textured and coloured with Dartmoor clays and minerals, and 365 abstracted landscape monoprints are among this thought-provoking body of work.

Haytor from Rubble Heap Quarry IV by Anita Reynolds

Film about Kate Lyons-Miller and Anita’s collaboration, by JM Media

IN COLLABORATION
In order for a collaboration to work there needs to be trust, openness and honesty. Anita and Kate knew each other quite well already having had studios in the same building a few years ago and so working together felt natural. Their practices are very closely connected through their mutual love of Dartmoor and their continued enquiry into a sense of place, exploration of materials and surface treatment in their respective crafts.

The area of Devon known as Dartmoor covers 365 square miles. Because of its outstanding scenery, remarkable geology and wealth of prehistoric monuments left by early Bronze Age humans, it was given National Park status in 1951……….

OVER TO YOU!

Here are some Dartmoor tors drawn by our audience in response to RIPPON