Blue Tit collecting spiders webs to build their nest © Clare Hewitt

In 2019 artist Clare Hewitt read a government report suggesting that loneliness and isolation were increasing in rural areas of the UK. Simultaneously she was learning that trees communicate, 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 oak trees, which are about 180 years old, and would have been acorns when photography was invented.

Setting her artist studio within this circle, Hewitt has repetitively documented the forest and its seasonal changes. She has examined the way trees relate amongst themselves and how, in the subterranean world, they connect their roots with fungal networks to share nutrients and information, they identify and nurture their offspring, pass wisdom to their young, and care for their community.
Everything in the forest is the forest presents 14 bodies of work that celebrate trees remarkable ability to nurture and communicate, and offers a wealth of insights on how we, as a society, can gain from the unity, communities and relationships found within the forest.

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