ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- This beautiful volume combines gorgeous illustrations and the prose, poetry and art from over 50 contributors such as Robert Macfarlane, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Elizabeth Kolbert and Zadie Smith. From prehistoric paintings to Mongolian Tree Clocks, from creation myths to the death of a 3,500-year-old cypress, this beguiling and immersive book also contains a tree alphabet (printed in green ink) as envisioned by Holten, and used to illustrate the pieces within. A special book indeed! Lindy
KATIE HOLTEN is an artist and activist, born in Ireland and living in New York City and Ardee, Ireland. In 2003, she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and Dublin City Gallery: The Hugh Lane. Her drawings investigate the entangled relationships between humans and the natural world. She has created Tree Alphabets, a Stone Alphabet, and a Wildflower Alphabet to share the joy she finds in her love of the more-than-human world. Her work has appeared in the Irish Times, New York Times, Artforum, and frieze. She is a visiting lecturer at the New School of the Anthropocene. If she could be a tree, she would be an Oak.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- This beautiful volume combines gorgeous illustrations and the prose, poetry and art from over 50 contributors such as Robert Macfarlane, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Elizabeth Kolbert and Zadie Smith. From prehistoric paintings to Mongolian Tree Clocks, from creation myths to the death of a 3,500-year-old cypress, this beguiling and immersive book also contains a tree alphabet (printed in green ink) as envisioned by Holten, and used to illustrate the pieces within. A special book indeed! Lindy
‘A thing of beauty… visually and cerebrally immersive.’ Sunday Independent ‘immersive, celebratory and timely … beautifully illustrated by Holten’ The Observer ‘A masterpiece’ Max Porter ‘A visual reminder that, like strong oaks from little acorns, we still can create the world in which we wish to live.’ Kerri ní Dochartaigh ‘A thoughtful and incisive view of Nature across the globe.’ The Countryman