Stone Grove – B-side Festival 2021

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Stone Grove

B-side and Somerset Art Works Platform Bursary Project 2020-21

 

Grove, Portland – A Place of Possible Sanctity

“In an unpublished manuscript The High Places of Portland  (Dorset County Museum Boxfile 5) Mrs King Warry also refers to the Grove area as a place of possible sanctity, being  approximately midway  between two areas which contained stone circles, now both destroyed…”

The Association For Portland Archaeology https://portlandarchaeology.weebly.com/grove.html

 

Stone Grove was made in response to the Grove area of Portland, inspired by the disused lime kiln to the north of the village and accounts of a lost stone circle discovered on the site of HMP/YOI Portland. Working with an improvised kiln built at her studio in Somerset, Scott created her own lime mortar from Portland stone. This Portland lime was used to coat a series of fallen branches gathered from the nearby Stadium Bowl, creating a fragile, ghostly installation at the Old Engine Shed.

Wood from trees self-seeded in a former quarry pit, and stone transformed through fire into lime. An elemental exploration of Portland’s ever shifting landscape.

 

Photographs by Paul Box, commissioned by B-side Festival.