Residency at ARTLICKS Bransdale
For the summer 2022, the artist collective Art Happens Here (AHH) took up residence with Art Licks in Bransdale on the North York Moors. The artists are: Sue Mann, Charlotte Salt, Sally Taylor, Lyn Wait, and Janet White.
The artists explored and developed new work as they engaged with the site and surrounding area of Bransdale, alongside the text The Green Child by Herbert Read.
The Green Child is the only completed novel by the English critic Herbert Read. Written in 1934, the book has many autobiographical elements. The son of a farmer, Read was born in Ryedale and one of his favourite walks was along the course of Hodge Beck: the inspiration for the stream followed by the main protagonist in the book that led to a mill. Bransdale Mill is the inspiration for this "spiritual hermitage" through which Hodge Beck runs.
AHH is a studio collective of artists, based in Malton, North Yorkshire.
Where gaps remain, myth and speculation emerge; a space where artists tend to do their most interesting work.
Surveying Bransdale: The Home as a Curatorial Method, George Vasey, 2022
Supported by Ryedale Small Arts Grants and Arts Council England.