TrudiEntwhistle

TRUDI ENTWISTLE

Email: trudi@trudientwistle.com

Website: www.trudientwistle.com

Mobile: 07980 295538

Site Specific Artist

With a background in landscape architecture, Trudi Entwistle’s work as a land and site-specific artist displays a particular sensitivity to place.

Whether her work has involved a residency on a small Welsh island, days and nights spent living in a Japanese temple, a permanent installation on a Yorkshire cycle route, or a series of earthen mounds in a botanical garden in the USA, her interventions are not imposed to challenge places, but to articulate their space and highlight their particular qualities of presence and our responses to them. Her interventions also explore the relationship of time and movement in passing by or through a space and how such an otherwise brief encounter can be momentarily fixed in our awareness and memory. For Entwistle her sculpture does not compete with the landscape, but creates a subtle addition to “stumble upon, linger, highlighting qualities of a 'place' that perhaps would have been quickly passed by.”

Increasingly, photography is playing an important role for Entwistle; not just to passively document her work but to explore how we mediate and represent places and our spatial interactions.

Trudi Entwistle is a part-time Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture and researcher at Leeds Metropolitan University.

‘Wave Break’ 2007
‘A Domicile’, residency, Guisseny, France.
(Commissioned by Louma and Centre Choreographique National de Rennes & Bretagne).

Inspired by the drama of wind and waves of this Brittany coastline, the installation captures the motion of waves breaking on the beach. Using willow withies, I worked with the skills of a local craftsman. The twists of this wave break became a place to shelter and a destination for music, workshops and story telling during a local festival of choreography.

‘Rotate’ 2003 ‘Spen Valley Greenway, ‘Art and the Travelling Landscape’, Sustrans, W.Yorkshire, UK.

In a grove of trees along a linear bicycle track, the cyclist breaks their journey to cycle round a circle of weathered steel hoops, experiencing a play of shadows.

‘Moon Shadow Sun Shade’ 2002 Kezouin Zen Temple and grounds, Kamakura, Japan.

Inspired and built in the grounds of a Zen temple, a simple circular wooden framework lined with traditional tatami mat provided shelter and rest for the visitor.