Crafts and Design at the University for the Creative Arts, based in Farnham, is a dedicated subject area containing a family of specialist courses including glass, ceramics, jewellery, metalwork, textiles, product design, and hand embroidery. Our commitment to crafts and design reflects both our long and distinguished tradition within it and our passionate belief in its continuing relevance and future. Collaboration between courses is encouraged, providing a unique community where students can share their creative process and inspire one another. www.uca.ac.uk

Surrey Hills Arts aims to engage and inspire people in the outstanding natural landscape through an imaginative programme across the arts, promoting heritage, health and tourism. It is a successful partnership between Surrey Arts, Surrey County Council and Surrey Hills AONB. Working together with other local landscape and arts organisations, we are developing a sustainable, adventurous arts programme for the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty across Surrey. www.surreyhillsarts.org

RSPB is a UK conservation charity working to secure a healthy environment for birds and all wildlife. Farnham Heath is managed by the RSPB and is part of the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and an example of restored heathland habitat. There are three nature trails of differing lengths which will help you explore the heath and discover all that it has to offer. www.rspb.org.uk

Parking Available at the Rural Life Centre

Outside opening times, Park in the layby in Old Frensham Lane.

RSPB Farnham Heath The Reeds Rd Tilford Farnham GU10 2DL

Heathland Artworks is a celebration of Farnham Heath, its natural diversity and beauty. Craft and design students from the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, have responded to the heath with new works in textiles, glass, ceramics and metalwork.

They have spent time learning about the RSPB’s conservation work, researching the wildlife and developing their pieces in the workshops. Heathland Artworks offers a different view of the heath with artworks that inform and inspire while being engaging and imaginative.

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1. Bird House to your SoulBy Jenna Fox

This series of bird house structures play on themes of nesting, scale and the unexpected. They mimic human houses sparking ideas of how we symbiotically (should) live together and to start a discussion, especially for children about homes for our wildlife and loss of habitat.

2. Fungi FanfareBy Tracy Dryden-Jones & Susan Blandford

The Turkey Tail, a bracket fungi, is commonly found on Farnham Heath. This sculptural artwork pays homage to the fungal kingdom which plays an important role in the

wellbeing of the heathland. This structure is made from hyperbolic planes crocheted in wool yarn and ceramic coated wire.

3. Prayer for the HeathlandsBy Katie Greenwood

From Heathland Artworks 2018, this interactive artwork is inspired by the Tibetan Prayer Wheels & Dharma principles to keep balance in the world. If we don’t conserve this Heathland habitat, many local species will disappear, creating imbalance.

4. Farnham Kites By Sian Highwood

These kites are made using bamboo and cloth, incorporating collected leaves

and seeds from the Heathland. Momentarily they are caught in a tree, soon moving on, just as we move through life but are reminded to stop and enjoy that which is around us.

5. CoexistenceBy Will Pike

From Heathland Artworks 2017, this steel wing sculpture celebrates this diverse wildlife. Each feather has been inspired by the markings of the heathland inhabitants and to express that like an ecosystem, a wing needs all its feathers to function.

6. Bird spottingBy Brigid De Saulles and Steve Bloom

Stop a while and look. Can you spot them? Nervous, twitchy,

bold or bright, magical and mischievous day and night. And where does the nightjar rest in the day?

7. Push PullBy Lucy Rhodes

Inspired by the delicate balance of heath-land flora this work highlights the battle between conifer trees that once populated this area, and heathland natives; gorse & heather. Without constant monitoring this important nature reserve would once again become pine forest.

8. PerspectiveBy Anna Pegg

This piece follows on from my sculpture Vertical View from the Heathland Artworks 2018. It plays with perception, changing when viewed from different angles and bringing the heathland into a new perspective.

9. TrumpetsBy Rachel Collyer

Making the micro, macro. Inspired by Trumpet Lichen, the health of the smallest plant life is a key indicator of the health of a habitat. This sculpture brings attention to a key, but rarely seen part of the environment.

10. Look upClàudia Casanovas Fulcarà

This installation invites the visitor to feel and enjoy the woodland from a different perspective. It also aims to encourage people to reflect about upcycling.

Also on Display The House of Invisible Hands By Walter BaileyThe House of Invisible Hands is a new sculpture on the viewpoint at Farnham Heath. It is a shrine to those whose labours shaped the landscape of Surrey in the making of forest glass during medieval times. This practise involved working within the forest using the raw materials of the landscape to keep the furnaces going. During his research, sculptor Walter Bailey became interested in the social aspect of the practice. The glass was made by skilled artisans from Europe and local peasants. Young children often worked long hours stoking the furnaces. The sculpture represents the many hands that laboured within local forests centuries ago.

Please respect the artworks and do not climb on, or remove any of the pieces.

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