In this ongoing collection of works Richards explores her relationship with a familiar, local, and loved place, Woodhouse Ridge. Through walking she investigates how a space becomes a place and in exhibiting a combination of personal response pieces with documentary style pieces she thinks through our relationships with spaces and how land ownership, collective use, abuse and memory influence this.
Walking Woodhouse Ridge has been exhibited twice, in both iterations of I Never Agreed to Lend My Voice, with each iteration playing with curation and presentation of work. The first iteration in the Project Space, Leeds, sees the installation of lots of small works (seen below), along with two audio works at different heights (one capturing ambient sounds from walks on the Ridge, and one capturing bodily sounds), and a projection work.
In it’s second iteration, at Hyde Park Book Club, Richard’s experimented with the idea of zine as process of dissemination, and played with the tensions created with these exhibited next to personal works displayed in institutional text.
Isobel Richards 