Wishart, long associated with early music, has created an original sound world conflating her recordings of rare and endangered birds and her own original music. During the run of the show Wishart will perform a specially commissioned piece responding to Perry’s works and her own heartfelt engagement with the environmental crisis.

Perry and Wishart’s collaboration is rooted in their mutual commitment to ancient forms as the inspiration from which they create contemporary visuals and music. Perry’s paintings have a huge debt to Northern Renaissance painting (Grunewald, Durer) and Wishart is a world expert on the 12th Century music of Hildegard of Bingen.

Perry has spent the last 15 years studying costal erosion as emblematic of the widest environmental crisis. For this project, Wishart will be creating original music inspired by Hildegard of Bingen. Tying her music to the very landscape that inspired Perrys paintings, Wishart will be integrating within the music her recordings of endangered Suffolk birds - Bitterns, and Nightingales.

Special Open Day 14 June 2–4pm.

Julian Perry

Julian Perry's paintings of specific locations and natural phenomenon, often under environmental threat or affected by human interventions, explore the strained relationships between people and nature. Since 2012, coastal erosion and the impact of climate change have dominated Perry's work. These themes took centre stage in works Perry exhibited in 2015 at the Venice Biennale, and in 2022 at the Southampton City Art Gallery.

www.julianperry.info

Stevie Wishart

Stevie Wishart is a well-known British composer with her roots in improvisation and early music. A performer on the violin, and the hurdy-gurdy, (a medieval stringed keyboard instrument), she has a distinctive combination of a classical foundation with a contemporary, improvisational overlay, drawing inspiration from the natural world which makes her an interesting and versatile musician. She is currently engaged in setting up Greenland Music, a project based at the Grade II* listed Greenland Fishery building in King’s Lynn, West Norfolk, dedicated to the development of music, nature and the environment.

www.steviewishartmusic.com