Melanie Rose
January 2025
The slow rumble of tyres over the cattlegrid is an indicator of my passing from one realm to another, one where the land is shared with our more the human friends, a place of entangled social, cultural, ecological history, a melting pot of witchcraft, ethnocide, bombs, ancient customs, combined with all the trappings of middleclass England.
PaC is a peer group for artists. Together we walk, explore and create a commons of exchange and support to strengthen one another’s practice. Monthly meet-ups take place in the New Forest area…
Alys Scott-Hawkins
Autumn 2024
… friendship, solidarity and sunshine after the era of lockdowns was a blessing and a balm, which nurtured my practice as I embarked on a new chapter.
An evolving PaP reading/ watch list on creative commoning …
“… and providing a forum of support, sharing, caring and exchange to strengthen one another’s practice. We explore practices of creative commoning, forming new knowledge of the area and collective ways of being. Our activities mirror the ancient agricultural commoning practices of the New Forest, which question accepted patterns of ownership and artistic authorship.”
Gemma Gore
November 2021
Liquid inner thoughts and feelings. Writhing. Never staying still long enough to remember how to say. How to say? How to say? Searching for the words I mean to say. Whispering them quietly. Enchanting a slowly forming thread. Gesticulated into being. Pulling the air from the ocean in through my body. Breathe…
Annabel Pettigrew
September 2021
…One foot in front of the other. Left before right, before left again.
I started walking because after a year of white noise it was the only thing I could muster enough strength to do.
It had felt impossible at first. Being unstable. Wobbly, as if my brain was not connected to my feet. I would pause to align myself against the crushing sensation of time standing still. People walked past, quick and able...
PaC was PaP, a peer group for artists with monthly meet-ups happening across the New Forest, together carrying out creative investigations into the area and providing a forum of support, sharing, caring and exchange to strengthen one another’s practice. Our activities mirror the ancient agricultural commoning practices of the New Forest, which question accepted patterns of ownership and artistic authorship.
PaP began as People + Place artist peer network at the end of 2019 , though with the onset of the pandemic it quicky evolved into a different format providing vital support for participating artist and we hope interesting activity shared with wider networks and communities. We had over 20 online meet-ups and managed to fit in a handful of covid compliant real life walks and gatherings, we co-convened a talk with art historian Michael Crane author of Correspondence Art (1984) …
