6-month exposure of oak trees, 2020 ©Clare Hewitt

Everything in the forest is the forest presents 14 bodies of work by artist Clare Hewitt, celebrating
the remarkable ability of trees to nurture and communicate. In doing so, it offers insight into what
we might learn from the unity, resilience and relationships found within the forest.

In 2019, Hewitt read a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation were increasing in
rural areas of the UK. Simultaneously, she was learning that trees connect, nurture, and thrive in
sentient communities.

For the past five years, Hewitt has worked at The Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR
FACE) within a circle of twelve 180-year-old oak trees, which would have been acorns when
photography was invented.

Setting her artist studio within this circle, Hewitt has documented the forest and its seasonal
changes. She has examined the way trees relate to each other, how they identify and nurture their
offspring, pass wisdom to their young, support their ecosystem and, in the subterranean world,
connect their roots with fungal networks to share nutrients and information.

The exhibition is accompanied by an immersive sound recording of the dawn chorus in the forest,
made in collaboration with electroacoustic composer, sound artist and musician, Professor Annie
Mahtani.

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