somewhere nowhere Harriet Fraser & Rob Fraser
CV 2011-2020
somewhere-nowhere is the collaborative practice of photographer Rob Fraser and writer Harriet Fraser. Our work celebrates the value of walking and slow time outdoors, and uses exploration and collaboration, with writing and visual and sculptural artwork, to reflect on the culture and nature of land, and strengthen connections between people and nature. Our work embraces self-led projects, partnership work, commissions and consultancy.
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Key Projects
Sense of Here (2019-2021) The knowing and feeling of place (Funders: University of Cumbria, Lake District National Park Authority, Lancaster University, Langdale Estate, Forestry Commission England).
Into the Light of Things (2019) Running Artist Residency for young and emerging artists (Funders: Great Place Lakes and Dales and Wordsworth Trust)
Our Common Cause, Our Upland Commons (2018-2019) Consultants in this wider project coordinated by Foundation for Common Land in partnership with 23 organisations
Ensemble, (2017-2022) artists for a five-year EPSRC-funded fellowship exploring Climate Change impact, communication and communities.
treefolds / Charter Art Residency (2017) (Commissioned by Common Ground with additional funding from Lake District National Park Authority, National Trust and Friends of the Lake District)
The Long View (2015-2017) Two years with seven remarkably ordinary trees (Funders: Arts Council England, Lake District National Park Authority, Friends of the Lake District, National Trust, Woodland Trust, Forestry Commission England, Lancaster University).
Voices from the Land (2016-2017) Farming and Landscape in the Yorkshire Dales (Funders: HLF and Yorkshire Dales National Park Sustainable Development Fund).
Land Keepers (2012-2014) Upland Farming in Cumbria (Funders: Leader, National Trust, Lake District National Park Authority, Farmer Network)
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Exhibitions: Solo
2020 Sense of Here, Grizedale Forest (scheduled to open September 25) 2019 Our Common Cause, Our Common Uplands, Dartmoor National Park (May/June) 2018 The Long View, ONCA, Brighton (June) 2018 The Long View, North Wall Gallery, Oxford (May) 2018 The Long View, Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle (Jan – Mar) 2018 Voices From the Land, The Folly, Settle (May – July) 2018 Voices From the Land, The Station, Richmond, Yorkshire (March - April) 2017 Voices From the Land, Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, Yorkshire (Oct-Dec) 2017 The Long View, Grizedale Forest, Cumbria (June – Oct) 2016 The Long View, Lakeside Gallery, Nottingham (May – June) 2016 The Long View, C-Art, Cumbria (Thorney How, Grasmere) 2014 iPorter, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London (November) 2014 iPorter, Theatre by the Lake Keswick (May – June) 2014 Land Keepers Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London (October) 2014 Land Keepers, Wordsworth Museum, Grasmere; Low Sizergh Barn, Kendal; Wray Castle, Ambleside; Theatre by The Lake, Keswick; Cumbria. 2012 Land Keepers, Woolfest, Cockermouth, Cumbria
Exhibitions: Group
2019 Westmorland Landscape Prize Exhibition (Shortlisted/runner-up), Rheged, Cumbria 2019 Artists in the Field Exhibition, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London 2019 Radical Landscapes Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington 2018 Common Ground, Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2017 C-Art, Art in Extraordinary Places: treefolds, Cumbria 2016 Environmental Internet of Things, Royal Welsh Show 2016 and 2017 Mountain Arts Festival, Rheged, Cumbria
Installations
Archive of Lost Woods (2019) With Woodland Trust, Glyn Davies Wood, Warwickshire Haiku in the Trees (2019) Timber Festival, National Forest Space for Imagining (2019) Evolving the Forest, Dartington Seven Tree Transformations (2016-2017) Cumbria (part of The Long View) treefolds (2017) Cumbria (three locations) Tree Poles (2017) Poems for eight poles to celebrate UK Tree Charter More here
Publications
Books: somewhere nowhere Press
Our Common Cause, Our Upland Commons (2019) Voices From the Land (Farming & Landscape in the Yorkshire Dales, 2018) The Long View (Two years with seven remarkably ordinary trees, 2017) Meadow (Poetry from a month in a meadow; Limited Edition, 2017) Water Finds its Way (Environmental Internet of Things in the Conwy Valley, 2016) Land Keepers (Upland Farming in Cumbria, 2014)
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Articles/Contributions in: Adventure Travel Landscape Photographer Alpinist Magazine The Learned Pig Countryfile magazine Outdoor Photographer Cumbria Magazine Patterns Journal Curlew Calling (poetry anthology) Performing Research Journal Dark Mountain Sidetracked Magazine Earthlines Telegraph Magazine (3 multi-page spreads) Ethnography Journal Toast Magazine Geographical magazine Treeline (anthology) The Goose, Journal of Arts, Environment & Valuing Arts & Arts Research Culture Write To Be Counted (anthology)
Films
These and other films are available at: https://vimeo.com/somewherenowhere
2020 A Question of Values 2017 The Long View 2017 iPorter. Peebles Mountain Film Festival; Sheffield Adventure Film Festival; Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival 2016 Everything is Connected 2016 iPorter, Kendal Mountain Festival
Radio & Television appearances
BBC Cumbria BBC World Service BBC Breakfast TV BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio Oxford
Presentations & Panels, a selection
2020 Envecon 2020, UK Network for Environmental Economists, Royal Society, London 2020 Multiple Perspectives of Place, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh 2019 Words in the Wild, John Muir Trust, Keswick 2019 Artists in the Field, RGS Explore 2019 Keynote Speakers, International Perspectives Conference, Principia College, Illinois 2019 Norman Nicholson Society AGM 2019 What is Natural? Wordsworth Trust 2019 Making Sense of Here IFLAS (Institute for Leadership and Sustainability), Cumbria 2018 Taking the Long View, Maryport Literature Festival 2018 Seven Remarkably Ordinary Trees, Words by the Water Festival, Keswick 2018 Geography and Art on Foot, RGS regional lecture, Blencathra Centre 2018 Words by the Water, Literary Festival, Keswick 2017 Friends of the Lake District Kirby Lecture, Ambleside, Cumbria 2017 How do artists touch the void? Panelists, Kendal Mountain Literature Festival 2017 The Long View: behind the scenes, RGS Lecture Series, Kendal
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Commissions & Residencies
In collaboration, Rob & Harriet
2017 – 2022 Artist researchers in residence on Ensemble, a five-year EPSRC-funded fellowship led by Prof Gordon Blair (University of Lancaster), exploring Climate Change impact, communication and communities: The role of Digital Technologies in understanding, mitigating and adapting to environmental change. 2020 The Moss Hut Artist commission, in collaboration with Charlie Whinney, for Wordsworth Trust 2019 Annenberg Scholars & Visiting Lecturers: Principia University, Illinois 2018-2019 Consultants, Social Cohesion in England’s Uplands, for ‘Our Common Cause, Our Upland Commons’ 2018 Artists in residence, Sail Britain 2017-2018 Charter Art Residency with Common Ground: creation of the Cumbrian treefolds 2017 Lead artists: City-wide walk investigating trees in Newcastle, with the Cultural Sense of Place group at Newcastle University and the Urban Laboratory. 2016 Lake District World Heritage Site Campaign, Lake District National Park Authority 2015–2016 Environmental Internet of Things Artists in Residence, with University of Lancaster and Centre for Hydrology and Ecology 2010-2016 Outdoor and creative work with more than 30 schools across Cumbria
Harriet Fraser - poetry
2017-present UK Tree Charter Poet in Residence 2016 - 2017 Poetry for audi otransmission in installations Woodland Trust 2016 Creative Writing Tutor Kendal College 2015 Poet in the Meadow Friends of the Lake District Residency, High Borrowdale, Cumbria
Rob Fraser - photography
2016-2017 Photographer Dry Stone Walling Association Heritage Project (Funders HLF, DSWA); (Rob Fraser) 2009-2013 Pathways to Art, (Rob Fraser) Whitehaven & Workington, Copeland & Allerdale Borough Councils
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Long Walks
2018 7-day treefold-to-treefold walk, Cumbria 2016 The Dark Walks Seven dawns, seven dusks: threshold moments at seven trees, for seven days spanning Midwinter 2016 The Light Walk Seven days, Seven Nights, 118km: walking between seven trees over Midsummer 2016 The Long View walks: walking to seven trees in a series of more than 20 walks, with over 350 people
Further Education & Research
2015-2017 Harriet Fraser, MPhil (Interdisciplinary Studies), University of Glasgow: Open Fell Poetics: Investigating the Lake District as a ‘Cultural Landscape’ through practice based poetics. Recipient of the Cairncross McRae Scholarship.
Memberships, associations, fellowships, patronage
a-n Royal Geographical Society (Fellows & art.earth (research associates) Northwest region committee members) British Mountaineering C StAnza Brewery Poets Tree Charter Champions Friends of the Lake District (Patrons) TSOeG (artist members: Temporal School of Landscape & Arts Network Experimental Geography) Walking Artists Network
www.somewhere-nowhere.com
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