Rural Idyll
Rural Idyll’, was a week-long residency held on a working sheep farm in 'Constable country', Suffolk during lambing time in the spring 2011. Curated by Ruth Richmond & Jax Horswill, visitors to the farm and final show in the June were invited to work together collaboratively to help complete the jigsaw puzzles.
'The sheep prefer the juicier, wet grass in the middle of the haystack'
Ruth Richmond, Farmer and Artist
Four limited edition 500-piece ‘fiendish’ Ravensburger jigsaws.
The jigsaws subvert the ‘chocolate box’ imagery of the countryside, presenting an obvious disparity with the reality and bureaucracy of livestock farming especially following the 2001 foot and mouth crisis and were also made thinking about the lived experience of sheep and their lambs. They were made during ‘Rural Idyll’, a week-long residency held on a working sheep farm in 'Constable country', Suffolk during lambing time in the spring 2011. Curated by Ruth Richmond & Jax Horswill, visitors to the farm and final show in the June were invited to work together collaboratively to help complete the jigsaw
puzzles.
The images of the sheep used in the jigsaws were of them in their daily lives, sometimes blurred using wool found on the farm over the camera lens.
Following the residency these artist jigsaws are now being sold at open studios and with the Artist Support Pledge, for £75, raising money for the environmental charity Friends of the Earth.
The jigsaws subvert the ‘chocolate box’ imagery of the countryside, presenting an obvious disparity with the reality and bureaucracy of livestock farming especially following the 2001 foot and mouth crisis and were also made thinking about the lived experience of sheep and their lambs. They were made during ‘Rural Idyll’, a week-long residency held on a working sheep farm in 'Constable country', Suffolk during lambing time in the spring 2011. Curated by Ruth Richmond & Jax Horswill, visitors to the farm and final show in the June were invited to work together collaboratively to help complete the jigsaw
puzzles.
The images of the sheep used in the jigsaws were of them in their daily lives, sometimes blurred using wool found on the farm over the camera lens.
Following the residency these artist jigsaws are now being sold at open studios and with the Artist Support Pledge, for £75, raising money for the environmental charity Friends of the Earth.
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Rural Idyll 2, Summer Exhibition, Jigsaw Collaborations
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