Rethinking the Landscape of the Peak District
A page dedicated to sources I have found when researching human intervention in the Peak District.
Researching how humans have had a negative impact on the Peak District has been significant to this project. I have read countless articles, and the important ones are shown below. I learned more about how areas of the Peak District are owned and controlled, and how this domination causes many serious problems and irreversible damage, such as habitat loss and the loss of land and wildlife.
Humans have taken control of and completely changed the landscape, so the land can no longer be defined as natural. However, I have researched how we can reverse and restore this destruction from the essay 'Rethinking the Landscapes of the Peak District' and how this can help form the way I work, from the materials I use, to the land I depict in my weavings.
It is important that my work considers nature-based solutions to restore the land of the Peak District. Not just through the materials that I use, but the techniques and choices while creating, in order to convey and recover lost processes and remove the title of a 'stagnant landscape'. My research into restoring the landscapes has allowed my weavings to introduce texture and a variety of colours, mimicking the diversity and habitats, whilst creating a visually captivating tapestry, which challenges the stereotype of uniform, neat and controlled tapestries. The unevenness of the weaves adds to the chaos and freedom of nature.
Sources: University of Derby, Rethinking the Landscape of the Peak District, Derbyshire Wildlife Trust