Please note: The VARC programme has now ended, this website is an archive of activity produced between 2000 – 2025.
May 2015
This film documents a celebratory feast which took place at Highgreen on 23 May 2015.
Kate collected footage from Highgreen and the surrounding area using a standard 8 camera and made a moving image piece that incorporates text. The writing emerged from thinking about the way thoughts can metaphorically and biologically become entangled with material ecological processes, being shaped by their forms and actions.
2021
Sam Douglas spent 10 months at Highgreen as artist in residence on the ENTWINED: Rural.Land.Lives.Art. programme.
2021
Shane Finan was artist in residence as part of the ENTWINED:Rural.Land.Lives.Art. programme.
August 2025
For their Full Circle residency in summer 2025, Rachel Deakin and Nell Catchpole collaborated with Marc Rigelsford.
2021
Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges spent one month at Tarset Village Hall as part of the ENTWINED: Rural.Land.Lives.Art. programme.
2020
In this video, Shane Finan introduces the concepts that he will be working on.
December 2022
This film was made by Gil Delindro with Ben Crowe capturing the sound of the 'helm wind'.
