LILITH & LUKE PIPER presents:
INNER LANDSCAPE
Midsummer Solstice Celebration
Pilton Tithe Barn, Somerset
EXHIBITION RUNS:
Thursday June 18th — Wednesday June 24th
Open 11am to 6pm daily
“Art and music allow us to come to terms with our mortality in those seemingly eternal golden moments when we feel connected, part of something bigger than ourselves, a collective belonging that runs deep in the land and through the air.”
THE VENUE
The Pilton Tithe Barn sits at the heart of the Vale of Avalon. It’s commanding position overlooking King’s Hill and the hallowed ground of Glastonbury Festival with Glastonbury Tor, The Blackdown Hills and Western seaboard in the distance. Once ruined, the barn was built in the 14th century to hold produce for Glastonbury Abbey and brought back to life by Sir Michael Eavis himself. Originally thatched and struck by lightning in 1963 the Glastonbury Festival legend was just 18 when he witnessed it burn down and has been able to raise it from the ashes to its former glory with the help of English Heritage funding officially opening in April 2005.
SPECIAL OPENINGS
Thursday June 18th 4pm - 10pm.
Opennning evening for all
Saturday 20th June 11am - 11pm.
Solstice celebrations for all
Centred on the midsummer solstice The Piper’s paintings celebrate the abundance and energy of nature at the height of the sun’s maximum altitude and day length.
Luke and Lilith create work inspired by the landscape in which they live and work, while also sharing their practice collaboratively through installations and music, which in turn feed back into the artwork itself. Atmosphere and venue are central to their approach, creating exhibitions that are immersive and memorable experiences. Surrounding a monumental Oak tree sculpture which is the centrepiece of one of their stages at Glastonbury Festival, will be an evolving soundscape featuring musicians from the “Tree Sonics” collective performing on the special events taking place throughout the exhibition.
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The 8 elements
April 2020
Mixed media on linen.
Each hanging 300cm high X 76cm wide
Goddess Triptych
2020
Pastel and ink with watercolour and gouache on paper
Each panel 300 X 55cm
Midsummer Passion Series
Dreaming of midsummer madness, painting in the hot of the summer day, what else could I do in this strange heat? Where is it coming from?
July 2021
Dye and ink on cotton duck canvas
Each panel 265 X 179cms
These wall hangings are a series of figurative works that represent the eight elements from the 2,500 year old Yi Jing or I Ching, translated as the 'Book of Changes', which is an ancient Chinese work of divination and prophesy.
The elements are here depicted as a group of eight hermaphroditic figures who converse with each other, ‘holding the space’. In old folklore everything is named in the plant kingdom and has a sacred meaning/symbol.
The atmosphere is enlivened by their threads of fragmented melodies which intertwine with the breeze to form a fluid elemental tapestry unified in its richness.
Each figure emerges within this tapestry to form its own unique elemental identity. The intricacies are centred within their expressions and combined with their personal symbols.
There is tension between the losing and finding of identity within their own forms and within the broader tapestry which connects them.
Can we possess identity or are we defined by our connections to each other and the elements which enfold us?
Can every spontaneous being possess identity, whether it be an element, a movement or a tension between holding and releasing?
“These were inspired from a series of small etchings I made, demonstrating a categorical and captured position of the elements. Within the loose and flowing linens, I portray them as figurative feelings.
I enjoy the precision and the fear of empty space that flows out of me in this rigid process of etching. This contrasts well with my fluid paintings of long bellowing figures that extend like flowing rivers, their souls extend and roam free but their bodies become trapped within the confinement of my etching plates. Similar to the stone circles, figures dancing in the stones, legend says they come alive at night”.
Banners around a hall. You are at the banquet of consultation, this remarkable deity offering you wisdom and insight into the consultations and coincidences of your life. They are the decision makers. As individuals they have intricacies that attend to different questions and affirmations, each play with the breeze individually. We sit as the wind stirs their branches in awe and wonder in the tumult and agitation of the tides. They have the freedom to fall and form into whatever one the viewer may desire
