Sat 18 Jan 2020 to Sat 07 Mar 2020
Preview:
Fri 17 Jan 2020, 6:30pm
Harry Borden and Mireille Thornton
Four Hugs Wide is a project to explore and portray our relationships with the arboreal through encounters with people who love, live and work with trees and woodlands throughout Britain.
The exhibition here at the Plough has a local focus on people in the Southwest taken from the wider project. Here you will find artists, farmers, activists and campaigners, forest food gardeners, designers, witches, musicians, writers, iron-age tool makers, healers, health workers and more.
The collection of portraits and stories by Harry Borden, one of the UK's finest portrait photographers, and writer Mireille Thornton are unromanticised; personal, political, open and affecting. Together they reveal, disturb, enchant, inspire and incite new questions for our own connections -- with the wider world, our own desires, and each other.
The main gallery show runs from 11 January to 7 March 2020 and is accompanied by a series of events, workshops and films.