Talking Forests
November 2025 – March 2026
Collaborative duo Caitlin and Anj Webb-Ellis have been selected for our first Awarded Residency, with the guiding theme of Talking Forests.
As they begin a six-month residency in The Gardener’s Cottage, they will be participating in classes, exploring the garden and joining volunteers and participants at events, learning about the Forgan community and what makes us tick.
They’re interested in meeting people of all ages, finding out about the surrounding ecology – and understanding the relationships between them all.
Keep an eye on our Events page for forthcoming happenings as part of the Talking Forests programme.
About their practice
Webb-Ellis are British/Canadian artist filmmakers. Using film, dance, music and installation, they create work which aims to offer participants and viewers ways to imaginatively access the political and philosophical, through the lens of the subconscious and the body.
Their practice is socially engaged and many of their projects take place over an extended period, working closely with people and specific places. Their research methods are somatic and collaborative, weaving together themes of ecological interconnectedness, posthumanism, relationality, adolescence, and the collective imaginative experience.
Webb-Ellis are facilitators of Philosophy for Children and recipients of the Jerwood Film and Video Umbrella Award 2019. Recent work includes ‘Let’s Make It Faster’ – a film and installation commissioned by MIMA, Middlesbrough, and ‘This place is a message’ – an extended educational project and film commissioned by Cement Fields and jointly funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
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