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A symposium on inclusive collaboration and commitment to change will also be held on May 21. Keynote speaker Vanley Burke will be joined by speakers including Joy Gregrory, Dexter McLean, David Constantine, Joanne Coates, Kirsty MacKay and Dr Shawn Sobers. A photo of Mike Feingold in his greenhouse, part of the  He is well known within the Bristol growing community, particularly because of the role he has played in promoting the philosophy of Permaculture and running an orchard with 50 differe...

A page from the Chloe Dewe Mathewss Thames Log © Chloe Dewe Mathews Over the past year, the River Thames has been a source of solace for many Londoners. This ever-changing waterway snakes through the centre of the city, dividing it into north and south while dramatically shapeshifting with a tidal ebb and flow that pays no heed to human dramas. Now, 12 months since London’s first lockdown, the Thames is the inspiration for a number of new projects that celebrate the power...

Shot between 2011–16, Chloe Dewe Mathews’ Thames Log traces the world-famous river from its easily missed, disputed source in a field in Gloucester to its more expansive end in the North Sea. The photographer focuses on rituals, from baptism to pagan ceremonies, and from reading the Sunday paper to teenage rites of passage, and in doing so, she suggests something paradoxical. Just as rituals are repetitive but never quite the same, the Thames is both centuries old and ever-changing. ‘Her...

Titled Thames Log and published by Loose Joints, the five-year project is an upended approach to the ever-changing bank of England’s longest river.

Mass Baptism 23/08/2013, 3.30 pm Southend-on-Sea approx. 180 biannually 51°31’54.6”N 0°43’32.7”E overcast© Chloe Dewe Mathews 2021 courtesy Loose Joints Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews spent five years capturing the secret life of the river, from its ancient pagan festivities to its contemporary religious rituals January 13, 2021 For London-born photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews, the Thames has been a constant source of mystery. “I used to walk across the river every day, on my way ...

Brutal Bacon, wild Gehry and unmissable Abramovic: 2021s best art, architecture and photography Jonathan Jones, Adrian Searle, Oliver Wainwright and Sean O’Hagan Art Screaming apes, isolated in cages – and that’s just the people. Bacon was the most atheist of artists and his vision of humans and other animals is relentlessly Darwinian, so don’t look for cuteness or sentiment in his ruthless dissections of our nature. This is a sideways look at a modern master. JJ Provoc...