Clare Hewitt: Everything in the forest is the forest

In 2019 artist Clare Hewitt read a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation were increasing in rural areas of the UK. Simultaneously she was learning that trees communicate, nurture, and thrive in sentient communities. For the past five years Hewitt has worked at The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR FACE) within a circle of twelve oak trees, which are about 180 years old, and would have been acorns when photography was invented. Setting her artist studio within ...