Melinda Schwakhofer is an American artist and citizen of the Muscogee Nation with Austrian-American ancestry. She is an internationally recognised artist whose practice encompasses a range of disciplines from textiles to painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography. Now based on Dartmoor, Melinda has been involved … Continue readingArt Raft
Last spring the Dartmoor Collective launched The Hawthorn Bursary. Working closely with the School of Photography at the University of Plymouth, the Bursary provides a £500 grant to a third year student to develop a discrete body of work based around Dartmoor. In doing do … Continue readingTrudy Roden
Now based in London, the photographer Susi Petherick spent her teenage years in Plymouth, and Dartmoor continues to feature heavily in her work. Her work itself defies genres, ranging from intimate macro to traditional landscape via ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) and abstracts. However, what does … Continue readingSusi Petherick
Robert Darch is one of Britain’s foremost photographic artists. Based in Exeter, much of his work is shot in Devon. We’ve previously interviewed Robert for the Collective about his work and practice. His first photobook, Moor, focussed around a dystopian vision of a near future … Continue readingVale – Robert Darch
Guy Dickinson is an architect and visual artist based in London. In 2016 he travelled down to Devon and spent 48 hours on Dartmoor taking the images that form the basis of his work Rifts and Erasures. The book itself runs to 76 pages, in … Continue readingRifts and Erasures
Since the start of the current pandemic, Dartmoor, like all of the UK’s national parks, has seen a significant increase in visitor numbers due to Covid travel restrictions and a renewed interest in exploring and seeking solace in the countryside. The impact of increased visitor … Continue readingDesire Lines
Conchie – a pejorative term for those who, for moral or religious reasons, refuse to participate in armed conflict. More than a path, but not quite a road, the “Conchie road” starts just beyond the original home of the Duchy of Cornwall’s land agent in … Continue readingThe Conscientious Objectors’ Road
Just occasionally you come across an image on Instagram that pulls you up short. Two weeks ago I was ambling through the Dartmoor Collective hashtag and a very simple, beautiful black and white image stopped me in my tracks. It was from an account that … Continue readingSalva Borrego
Robert Darch is a British artist-photographer based in the south west of England. Many of you will know his work via his first publication, The Moor, which depicts a fictionalised dystopian future situated on the bleak landscapes of Dartmoor. His Instagram feed showcases the range … Continue readingRobert Darch
Over the last two decades, the Dartmoor Trust have been building an online digital archive of Dartmoor Images. We spoke to founding director, Simon Butler to find out more about this fascinating project. … Continue readingDocumenting Dartmoor