Frances Presley's Lines of sight brings together all her poems from 'Stone settings and longstones', a sequence framed by the Neolithic stone monuments on Exmoor. The poems reflect the fragile, elusive and even disputed existence of these sites, as well as the enduring landscape which surrounds them. They reveal, too, more recent layers of history, and the creation of new stone settings. The writings of a local woman archaeologist are also a source of rediscovery and radical realignment. This sequence is part of a collaboration and performance with Tilla Brading. Other monuments are engaged...
Frances Presley's Lines of sight brings together all her poems from 'Stone settings and longstones', a sequence framed by the Neolithic stone monument...
No film in the camera is a collection of prose poems about photographs by professional photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesca Woodman, Bill Brandt, Letticia Battaglia and Jitka Hanzlova - and also about personal photos and recollections of photos, about what photographs reveal and conceal.
No film in the camera is a collection of prose poems about photographs by professional photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Francesca Woodman,...
"She tries to conjure up places and situations which normal language does not reach, from which it has disappeared, and then let something unheard communicate with us across a distance for which we have no words. (...) What she adds is her fabulous gift of making her material physical." -Hadle Oftedal Andersen, Klassekampen
"She tries to conjure up places and situations which normal language does not reach, from which it has disappeared, and then let something unheard com...
