Book Launch, Talk & Signing, Luke & Nik: Reconstructed Nature

06:30pm - 08:00pm, Thu 05 Dec 2024

Please join us for an evening with artist duo Luke & Nik who will be sharing their new book Reconstructed Nature. On the night, Luke & Nik will be in conversation with book designer Tom Booth Woodger and writer Ellen Miles, both of whom contributed to the book. The conversation in the Cafe Bar will be followed by a book signing in the Bookshop.

 

colour images of petals

Book Launch, Talk & Signing, Luke & Nik: Reconstructed Nature

6:30pm, Thu 05 Dec 2024

Please join us for an evening with artist duo Luke & Nik who will be sharing their new book Reconstructed Nature. On the night, Luke & Nik will be in conversation with book designer Tom Booth Woodger and writer Ellen Miles, both of whom contributed to the book. The conversation in the Cafe Bar will be followed by a book signing in the Bookshop.

 

This event is part of our Past Programme

Reconstructed Nature- Presenting a collection of new and unseen photography works, the book project celebrates years of synergy and exchange between artist duo Luke & Nik. Venturing into their respective landscapes in Denmark and in the UK, they comb, gather, reflect, and ramble. Picture by picture, piece by piece, they continue to evolve and reinterpret nature as a duo, progressing in ever-new ways.

Uniquely brought together and designed by Tom Booth Woodger, the book features perforated pages which are designed to be torn apart revealing additional imagery and text, encouraging the reader to actively participate in the discovery and exploration of the artworks and their own connection to the natural environment. With accompanying text by the esteemed writer, activist, and guerrilla gardener Ellen Miles, this book includes three exercises that encourage readers to engage with nature in new and innovative ways. These exercises embrace the essence and approach of Luke and Nik’s interaction with the natural world.

 

 

Luke Norman (1988) & Nik Adam (1986) are multidisciplinary artists with a focus on photography & moving image. Their intuitive practice sits somewhere between reality and imagination. Creating work which stimulates dialogue between nature and the senses, driven by a desire to authenticate and explore through visual form. The duo’s portfolio is characterised by special projects, their process-dominant work transcends rigid hierarchies and invites viewers to make their own personal connections. Collaborating across a wide spectrum of projects, from emerging musicians to luxury fashion brands, showcasing their adaptability and versatility as artists.

 

Tom Booth Woodger is a designer, publisher & photographer based in London, UK. Book design is his primary focus and is founded upon the belief that making a book is both collaboration and response. Working together with artists to make a publication relies upon exhausting all possibilities in order to arrive at a best possible final form for the work to exist in.

 

Ellen Miles is an author and activist who roots for nature in urban neighborhoods. She is the author of Get Guerrilla Gardening: A handbook for planting in public places (2023) and the editor of Nature is a Human Right: Why we're fighting for green in a grey world (2022), an anthology of original writing by world-renowned nature writers, poets, scientists, artists and activists on why access to green spaces should be an equal right, not a luxury.