Not Yet Out of the Wood

Not Yet Out of the Wood is a short film by Jennet Thomas featuring a fractured narrative voiced by anthropomorphic bats who inhabit a miniature dream-like stage-set of moss and twigs harvested from her local London cemetery during the first lockdown. Thomas’s film highlights our irrational fears about bats, and draws attention to the greater threat that we pose towards them as a species “they’ve been around for 50 million years. They don’t want anything to do with us, and this whole thing is not their fault.”
The film is an off-beat paean to these creatures that culminates in a re-worked version of David Bowie’s song ‘Oh you pretty things’.

Commissioned by the New Forest arts organisation 'More Than Ponies' for the series 'TELE VISTAS' July - Nov 2020

A programme of events, community broadcasts and commissioned art works addressing the lure of landscape during the covid crisis and lockdown. Inspired by the local history of William Gilpin, the writer of the picturesque, who was based in the New Forest.

TELE VISTAS is a programme of events, community broadcasts and commissioned art works addressing the lure of landscape during the covid crisis and lockdown. Inspired by the local history of William Gilpin, the writer of the picturesque, who was based in the New Forest. Commissions by ‘from a far’ artists Adam Chodzko, Benjamin Deakin, Cotelito, Jennet Thomas ↑, Jordan Baseman, Marcela Sinclair, Mick Peter, Rebecca Birch, Simon Bayliss, and Chris Welsby.

Traversing Terrains Artists' Book Publication
“ A hand-held exhibition. An IRL object. Something to touch and turn. Images and words to dwell on.”

The New Forest is a unique place of expansive spaces of forestry, coastline, river-ways and heathland. This More Than Ponies publication is an alternative guidebook featuring artists’ pages that speculate on current and new ways of experiencing these ancient terrains. It explores ideas of how landscapes (anywhere) may be seen or mapped, and how they may become diverse metaphors or a restorative tonic.

Contributing artists are: Rachael Champion, Adam Chodzko, Benjamin Deakin, Laura Eldret, Feral Practice, Jennifer Lewandowski & Samuel Levack, Ox Art, Simon Bayliss / Landscape Painters Anonymous, Cotelito & Alejandra Aguado, PaP (Gemma Gore, James Aldridge, Laura Eldret, Liz Jones, and Annabel Pettigrew) , Jennie Savage & Richard Page, Annabel Pettigrew, Jennet Thomas and Chris Welsby.

Full colour 72pp 156 x 234mm

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