Artist talk with Rebecca Chesney

Looking at the flora and fauna of a site can not only reflect the diversity of its ecology, but its history and connection to trade, industry and to other places and communities. As part of its forthcoming redevelopment, visual artist Rebecca Chesney (www.rebeccachesney.com) has been invited to survey, record and archive the flora and fauna of Baltic Wharf in Totnes. Rebecca Chesney's work explores our changing relationship with the natural world and includes installations, interventions, drawings, maps and walks.

Rebecca has been commissioned by Landlife, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the Brontë Parsonage Museum and completed residencies in Japan and Mumbai. She will speak about her past work which has included documenting the routes of bees on the Bretton Estate; the changing weather at Haworth where the Brontës lived; dandelions as an alien invasive species in Japan (out-competing native Japanese dandelions) and the weeds of Preston, where she lives. Rebecca's Landlife commission for Everton Park in Liverpool resulted in the planting of a 2 acre wild flower meadow to provide a habitat for bees and insects.

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