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The British artist was all at sea until he came across a druid ceremony which ignited his art and set him off on a new path as a documentarian. “It made me re-plug myself back into humanity,” he tells Russ Slater Johnson
Over the course of his career, folklorist Doc Rowe has run through the streets with a flaming barrel strapped to his back, covered a man from head to toe with prickly burdock seeds and filmed people launching themselves down a steep hill in pursuit of a rapidly rolling wheel of cheese.
A treasure trove devoted to folk traditions has been amassed by one man<em>. </em>Now a campaign hopes to give it a proper home
John McMahon , June 5th, 2021 07:55 John McMahon previews a new exhibition exploring UK calendar customs, from the Museum of British Folklore and the artist Ben Edge Whittlesea Straw Bear, Ben Edge, 2020 © Ben Edge “The present generation has witnessed the extinction of many observances which our fathers practiced and revered, and doubtless the progress of decay will continue. We have entered upon a diminished inheritance” So wrote the Berkshire Reverend, historian and freemason PH Ditchfield, in 1896's Old English Customs. And it is undoubtedly true that Britain's folklore, vernacular ...