Visitors to Calke Park today were amazed to discover a mysterious pattern in the grass. What could it be? A crop circle - grass is a crop, perhaps?
"It looked as though the grass had been cut right back to ground level" explained Ticknall resident Chris Eastman who was in the park before 8.00 am today.
Ideas, anyone?
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The Timecircles symbolise this change as they fade back into the landscape in the same way but hopefully also encourage people to search for their origins whilst visiting the property. 3 years ago g8artists set out to bring contemporary art to this historical setting culminating in this years show and more circles to come.
The final show in the Riding School is called ‘Timescape – TRACES’. August 7th – 22nd
It is a great privilege to be allowed to create the series of installations at Calke as part of the Timescape project. All designs are from symbols and patterns found within the park or in the architecture at the Abbey which are then transposed large scale by mowing them into the grass or are drawn in frost and snow depending on the season.
G Ensor
The design has been created by Graham Ensor a local contemporary artist who as part of a group called G8 Artists are staging a 3 year Arts Coucil funded contemporary art project using Calke Park as the inspiration for the work. Graham also created similar designs in the snow during Jan and Feb, did you see them?
The project will culiminate in August this year with the Timescape Trees exhibition being staged in the Calke Abbey Riding School between Sat 7th and Sun 22nd Aug
For more details on the project www.g8artists.co.uk and click on Timescape.
Thank you Chris for raising the question.
Stewart Alcock
Property Manager - Calke Abbey