Some invitations arrive as opportunities.

Some invitations arrive as opportunities.

Others arrive as confirmations.

This September, I will be joining the Land Art Collective’s Listening residency on Dartmoor as a guest facilitator.

For many years, I have been exploring a question that sits underneath much of my work:

What becomes possible when we learn to listen differently?

Not simply to each other.

But to place.

To memory.

To the body.

To the intelligences that exist beyond the limits of our inherited maps.

That question sits at the heart of Cartography is Not Home, my current artistic research project exploring soil, sound, ancestral intelligence, DNA, and the forms of knowledge that emerge when listening becomes practice rather than metaphor. The project asks what gets lost when we mistake the map for home, and what becomes audible when we listen back.

Dartmoor feels like an important place to continue that inquiry.

A landscape shaped by deep time.

A place where listening requires a different pace.

A different quality of attention.

I am looking forward to spending time alongside artists, writers, cultural practitioners and fellow explorers of the unknown, sitting with questions that cannot be answered quickly and learning from what the land might have to teach us.

16–23 September 2026.

Dartmoor.

Listening.

Perhaps the most important practice of all.

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