Gabrielle Hoad

• About
• Artworks
  • Delicate Instruments
  • Clouded Border
  • Ghost Moth
  • The whistle draws attention
    to the signal
  • Salt-cat (keeps them at home)
  • Turn (the) leaves
  • Fatal exchanges
  • pigeon steps
  • lie lie lie
  • Street Rockery
  • A house of leaves
  • Hide
  • The Luminous Envelope
  • Feed
  • Columbarium (all that remains)
  • The further away they are
  • The Geometry of Air
  • Interloper
  • Listen to Easterbrooks
  • The Great British Banana
  • Mutter Erde
  • Is and Was
  • Observatory
  • River Bovey Walk
  • Space as defined by two
    separate systems
  • The spaces where things
    have been
  • I draw them. They draw me.
  • What the world becomes
• Projects
  • Clouded Border
  • Read (to) the trees
  • The Buffer Zone
  • Preston Street Union
  • LEAN
  • Solid Air
  • Foreign Soil
  • HEIST
  • Stowage
  • Exeter Studios Project
• Moving Image
  • Two-handed timekeeper
  • Orbit
  • the predecessor to your prayer
  • Crosstalk
  • Bound
• Writing
• Shop
• Contact

Read (to) the trees  |  2017 - present

An ongoing project consisting of shared public acts of reading and listening, which invite contributions from human and nonhuman participants. It began with Return by 24/9/2017, when unwanted books, stored for many years in a barn at West Town Farm Devon, were read to trees in a nearby copse, prior to being pulped. The project was further developed in collaboration with Megan Calver as a series of public events, culminating in a sound piece for Art on the East Devon Way commissioned by the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton in Autumn 2018 – Turn (the) Leaves.

Sitting on the boundary between public and private, broadcast and overheard, these events use both found and carefully selected texts to heighten a sense of place and attune readers to subtle sights, sounds and sensations.