Samantha Gare - Place Mark: Mapping Nature Connections 3
Place Mark brings together 12 weeks of art, produced daily during Sam’s isolation, a collection of drawings that transport our positive ‘outdoor’ memories of nature back into the home during lockdown. These memories and connections to the natural planet are discoverable on the interactive map: We can reflect and view the artwork, explore individuals’ connections to place, share their memories, and even request places to be considered for new work.
Place Mark will develop as more people interact with it. Launched at WAC’s 'Wilderness for the Mind' exhibition, it will continue indefinitely. As Sam collects and draws more memories, she hopes that by mapping our collective connection to place we can all explore our relationship with nature with a global perspective.
Samantha Gare
Sam aims to share the positive power of nature on the human spirit and soul, inspiring us to reconnect to nature and in turn promote us to conserve and respect the wilderness. She frequently travels to natural environments to inform her work, creating both in the studio and outdoors in the field. This combines with her delicate linework techniques to echo the documentative approaches of past explorers James Cook and Joseph Banks, whose artistic and cartographic collections Sam worked with at the Natural History Museum. Sam is a self-taught artist. She is an ambassador for the Wilderness Foundation UK and Co Founder of the Wilderness Art Collective.