Talking Trees

TALKING TREES is a publication gathering work created in response to art workshops, talks, field-trips and online exchanges between students in their first year of BA (Hons) Fine Art Studies at Arts University Bournemouth and students from Non-Formal Education at the Rawalpindi Centre for Street Children of the Pakistani NGO SPARC Society for Protection of the Child.

The project explored collage and the publication as a collaborative space for visual and cultural dialogues between students from page to page. Both groups of students spent time with trees in their locality: learning, observing, drawing, feeling, listening to trees.

 

Project participants and contributors: Muhammad Ahmed, Huzaisha Imran, Hadia Noor, Abrish Abbas, Usman Imran, Umaima Jan, Akfeen Khan, Fahad Imran, Rabiya Jan, Ayesha Imran, Momina Waseem, Sara Moin, Lalain Fatima, Nancy Violet, Esther Rose, Lynne Williams, Sarah Wall, Yveline Burton, Amie Dodgson and Alfie Van Veen.

 

170 x 250 mm 64 Pages 32 Colour photographs, reproductions of drawings, paintings and collages 7 Poems in Urdu + English Staple bound \+ Book wrap / poster (2022) Edition of 100 Talking Trees was part of Global Networks, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Arts University Bournemouth, 2020-2021.

 

The project was led by Eugenia Ivanissevich, Lecturer on the BA Fine Art course AUB and Nasira Hanif, Non-Formal education teacher at Rawalpindi Centre for Street Children, SPARC. **All proceeds from sales of Talking Trees go towards aid for the floods in Pakistan.** **Minimum donation of £15.00.** **Funds will be administered by SPARC, Pakistani NGO.**