In August 2013 Sheila invited straybird to collaborate on her Rambles with Nature project. Using the hedgerow as a starting point they undertook a two week long ‘ramble’ together in Cambridge which resulted in a series of four short cinepoems for small screens:

• Goldfinch Feast (duration 2 mins, 3 secs)

• On Considering the (English) Hedge (duration 2 mins, 35 secs)

• August (1 min, 51 secs)

• Fur and Feather (4 mins, 14 secs )

In January 2014 the cine-poems were shared for the first time as a 6 week installation that invited visitors to discover the works on their own ramble through Siobhan Davies Studios. Sheila and Lucy Cash from straybird also led some guided 'tours' through the piece and gave a public talk.

Nestled in fake hedging, alongside some carefully selected objects, the piece invites audience members to slow down, listen and notice the ‘unseen’ or ‘overlooked’.

Ramble 1  has since been shown at Cambridge Junction, Warwick Arts Centre and Forest Fringe in Edinburgh 2015.

All of the cine-poems were screened as part of Walking Women at Somerset House in 2016 and On Considering The (English) Hedge was in the Now! Now! display curated by Sonia Boyce, that accompanied Black Artist’s and Modernism’s Now and Then… Here and There conference.

The cine-poems can also be watched below.

Photography Lucy Cash (at Siobhan Davies Studios)

 Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England