Location: The Cabin, The Slipway, Bucks Mills, North Devon EX39 5DY

“I have read [A Truce with Time] with very great pleasure, admiration and regret. The regret is solely that the Hogarth Press is not its publisher…. The quality is extraordinary over so many years.”

Leonard Woolf

Inspired by Mary’s beautiful prose, I have created a site-specific installation of sculpted books that become an integral part of the Cabin.
I grew up not far from Bucks Mills, and as a child spent most summers on the beach at the end of the Slipway, oblivious to the tiny cottage and its history.
Stepping into the Cabin for the first time recently, it was as if the cottage had been frozen in time, abandoned many years ago by its artist owners Mary Stella Edwards and Judith Ackland. Their lives are mirrored through the every day objects on display, from the spectacles in the box of art materials to the linen in the cupboards, its almost as if they might walk in at any moment…

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