As part of Caroline’s tree planting ceremonies that happen every year, the artist Bruce Asbestos performs a ‘Tree Cry’. This was part of a ceremony where a new Oak tree was planted on the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham.
News
Caroline Locke launches her new Significant Trees Website
One of Caroline’s ongoing umbrella projects is called Significant Trees . There are many projects linked to this body of research and practice. You can find out more here: www.significanttrees.co.uk.
Building a Mass Movement of People for woods and Trees
The Arboricultural Association invited Caroline to talk about her socially engaged projects in connection with The Woodland Trust. You can view this online webinar here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6eZdGHH6Ss
The Tree Charter Bell - Exciting News
I had some good news today which I am so very excited about and wanted to share - The Tree Charter Bell was dug out today - it is not finished yet but here is a pic 😁
Newton's Apples - ready to cast
This seasons early 2020 apples collected from Isaac Newton’s apple tree are ready to be cast.
Climate Data From Scott Polar Institute Controlling Artistic Devices
This set up is part of my Performing Data Projects which use climate data to control various devices. The light device uses the rate of Artic sea ice melting recorded by The Scott Polar Institute to control a dimmer unit which brightens and dims the light given off. I hope to use the light as part of various future projects - the first The Terre Ice Chandelier ( a multi- screen video installation ) is nearly complete. See Links https://vimeo.com/412481141/03fe9902a8 and https://vimeo.com/444509734
Significant Trees - The Tree Charter Bell - The process begins.....
I’m very excited to announce that the casting process for my new project has begun. The mould for The Tree Charter Bell is currently being made at Loughborough Bell Foundry.
The bell has significance in terms of it being used to call people together and also as a warning sign. Using this idea as a trigger and as part of a growing body of my current research, I intend to bring groups of people together in order to consider relationships to significant trees, nature and historic places.
The aim is to explore how we feel in regard to our changing environments and how we communicate these feelings - what are the possibilities for expressing how we feel? can we send messages out in order to express our fears and is it possible to instigate action through artistic interventions?.
Using tree stories, the bells and the data recorded from all the significant trees, I hope to generate further outcomes.
Tree Charter Bell Mould
Tree Planting at Christchurch gardens in Nottingham City
This is the tree in Christchurch gardens that Frank Abbott is working with as part of Rachel Jacob’s Performing the Future project. We are both part of this great project which explores narratives concerned with environmental risk. I hope to make a bell in connection to the tree and I have just been given permission by Nottingham City Council to plant 20 new trees here as part of my Charter Tree Project and in connection to the Woodland Trust.
Collecting Newton's Apples
As part of my ongoing work with Significant Trees, The National Trust kindly gave me permission again to collect new apples from the famous tree at Woolsthorpe Manor, Newton’s home where he discovered gravity. I will be casting them very soon . The lack of footfall during Covid -19 has done the land around the manor good. It was strange to be alone there.
Ringing the Significant Tree Bell for NHS appreciation
Ringing one of my ‘Significant Tree Bells’ for the Clap for Our Carers campaign. The UK nation come together each Thursday to publicly recognise the efforts of the NHS fighting the Covid 19 pandemic. You can hear fireworks and cheering in the background.
Recording the sounds of Ice in an Arctic Frozen Lake
This is Øystein Overrein and myself preparing to record the ice. Øystein is from the Norwegian Polar Institute and has spent time researching Polar bears. He is quite amazing and I am so pleased that he was with me on this project. Thanks Øystein
Ice Holes February 2020
Making holes in the ice for the hydrophone in order to record Arctic Lake ice melting and moving
Arctic Research begins February 2020
Lucky enough to be taking a research trip to the Artic Circle.
Sound Fountain At Haydn Primary School - Talking To Year 4 Children About Sound And How It Works
I took one of my Sound Fountains into our local school - Haydn Primary yesterday. It was great to speak about sound - the kids were so engaged and asked thoughtful questions.
When The Future Comes.....
The last day of 2019 and I am thinking about the next decade. The Future is coming…
The week before Christmas and the day after the elections I was at Futherfield in Finsbury Park with a group of inspiring people. We were in a workshop, organised by Dr Rachel Jacobs and Prof Esther Eidinow, discussing ideas linked to the ineffable (that which is incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable-inexpressibly bad - unspeakable) . I took my prototype Bell tuned to the frequency of a tree at 21 degrees. Inspiration for a difficult morning after the night before.
This event followed up conversations we had in the When the Future Comes Workshop at Nottingham Contemporary that looked to the future as the environment and climate is changing. I took a tree sapling from The Woodland Trust given to me at an event with Common Ground at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I gave the sapling to a young couple who had just moved in together - they will watch it grow into the future.
There is much we need to change in order to secure our future.
I continue making bells tuned to the frequency of significant trees - I hope over the coming months and years to ring out our call for change.
At Furtherfield in London - The Ineffable Workshop
Climate Bell
Sapling Gift
At Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the Common Ground Supper.
December 31, 20190 Likes Share
My first Significant Tree Bell tuned to the Frequency of The Southwell Bramley Apple Tree - 500Hz at 21 degrees.
Working with Key stage 1 school children - exploring sound waves.
November 9, 20180 Likes Share
Artists Lab
Had a great day with Rachel Jacobs and Matt Watkins discussing Performing the Future at our Primary Studio this week - see details at http://www.performingthefuture.net/2017/11/28/smoking-trees-crystal-balls-and-solastalgia/
December 2, 20170 Likes Share
Studio Meeting With Scientists And Programmer
We are running tests using Brain Data to control the speed of a small motor
December 1, 20170 Likes Share
Autumn Beauty
Studying Autumn Trees
November 22, 20170 Likes Share
Meetings At Nottingham University
The new Brain Scanner has arrived - we are discussing ways of gathering more Brain Data
November 15, 20170 Likes Share
Copyright: Caroline Locke 2017
Tree Sapling Gift from me to you at Nottingham Contemporary.
At Yorkshire Sculpture Park for the Common Ground Supper