With contributions from Ruby Whitehouse, Alice Watkinson and Eve Aspland with writings about fenland bodies and secular enchantment, first footings, as well as art that is made from and honours the land beneath our feet.
Ruby Whitehouse is a CHASE-funded PhD student at the University of East Anglia. Her thesis, entitled ‘Al Biclagged in Clay’: Changeable Bodies, Ecologies and Identities in Medieval Literary Wetlands’ is concerned with the role bogs, fens, marshes and other wetlands play in the imagination of medieval Britain, with a particular focus on how these spaces engage with bodies – human, saintly, monstrous, (un)dead and all those in between. Outside of her PhD, Ruby is especially passionate about public engagement with East Anglian literature, history and folklore through the lens of landscape and community.
Alice Watkinson
Alice Watkinson is a writer and musician from Chester. She studied medieval literature at Lady Margaret Hall and Magdalen College, Oxford, and thus loves all things old, weird, and wonderful. She is a co-founder of unquiet press, and is beyond excited to share our first edition with the world. Alice loves tea and hates olives.
Eve Aspland
Eve Aspland (b.2003) is an artist, musician and gardener from Devon, currently based in London. Post-Industrial spaces have a character of their own, a beauty in the rot, where greenhouses meld with dilapidated buildings, wetlands and the circular forms of radar transmitters. The landscape memory of our lineage resurfaces from the queasy earth and Aspland attempts to recall hers through sedimentary materials of sand, chalk pastel, bog-oak sawdust, thin washes of oil paint and disused fenland words. Deep listening and looking to hear the silting of the years in an act of misremembering. Aspland sees Folk culture as an important act of anti-capitalist and anti-fascist resistance and is very excited to see where the contemporary Folk Revival goes.
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