More Than Ponies

This tea towel is a collaborative artwork intended to infiltrate and intervene in daily life created by PaP (James Aldridge, Gemma Gore, Laura Eldret, Annabel Pettigrew and Alys Scott Hawkins). It celebrates laughter as a collective act, as something that is produced by bodies and between bodies, something that binds groups, forms trust and hints at practices of breath and grounding.

PaC is a peer group for artists. Together we carry out creative investigations into the New Forest area and create a forum of support, sharing, caring and exchange to strengthen one another’s practice. We meet IRL to walk, sit, talk and often eat together. PaC was known as PaP at the time of the creation of this artwork.

The phrase “Laughter is a kind of breath work” was generated from a conversation between PaC members reflecting on what it is that we do together and advocating for others to do it too. The phrase is accompanied by illustrations of our time spent together in the Forest, legs on land, a mossy mule, hands in earth, sitting cross legged in circles.

50 x 80cm screenprinted cotton

New Forest Goods is a contemporary collection of artist-designed merchandise and small-scale art works. Artists are paid an honorarium for their work. All profits from sales go towards contemporary art in the New Forest (MTP).

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Art and the Rural Imagination features writing by key academics and artists and explores how contemporary art can help to reimagine the rural as a site of contemporary thought and experience. It reflects on a diversity of issues, from post-pandemic landscapes to farming, tourism, sustainability, productivity, as well as issues of gender, sexuality and decolonisation. At the heart of the book is a concern with both people and place, as well as expanded engagement with animals and ecologies. The scope of the book is international with contributors detailing a wide range of rural experiences and concerns. The book is the outcome of a conference in 2020 titled Art and the Rural Imagination, and also features a selection of commissioned artworks that expand on the core themes of the main essays.

Editor: Colin Perry

Contributors: Adam Chodzko, Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, Catherine Elwes, Laura Eldret, Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald), Paul Finnegan, Jenny Holt, Anna Sofie Hvid, Victoria Lucas, Deirdre O’Mahony, Harry Meadows, Colin Perry, Rosemary Shirley, Julian Stallabrass, Standart Thinking (Javier Rodriguez), Marina Velez Vago and Zoox .

“ More Than Ponies ” 100% cotton canvas bag.

140gsm, approx 38 x 42cm.

inc. UK P + P

New Forest Goods is a contemporary collection of artist-designed merchandise and small-scale art works. All profits from sales go towards contemporary art in the New Forest (MTP).

Arthonia Cattle is a limited edition artist print produced by Rachael Champion specially for MTP. This A5 print is a digital collage produced in response to her research into the wetlands and hydrological systems of the New Forest. This edition featured in Dappled Light in March 2022, More Than Ponies first IRL exhibition (due to the pandemic).

Limited edition of 25 + 6ap
15 x 20cm

inc. Uk p+p

New Forest Goods is a contemporary collection of artist-designed merchandise and small-scale art works. Artists are paid an honorarium for their work. All profits from sales go towards contemporary art in the New Forest (MTP).

Rachael Champion makes site-specific artworks that explore the physical, material, and historical relationships between ecology, industry, and the built environment. 
Her works are typically large-in-scale and consist of living organisms and ubiquitous building materials. Coalescing at an intersection between biology, geology, and
architecture, Champion addresses the corporeality of the materials we extract, transform, and consume and how these actions affect the physical characteristics of
landscapes and ecosystems. Born 1982 Long Island, New York, USA. Lives and works in Thanet UK. Represented by Hales Gallery London / New York