Who are we?
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is Head of Academic Research and Associate Professor at Plymouth College of Art. Her most recent publication is Visions of Enchantment - Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture, co-edited with Daniel Zamani (Fulgur, 2018). She has contributed to a number of publications on film, surrealism and the occult. Her moving image work is distributed by Cinenova. Her current practice centres on text + image + magic and the quest for the post-anthropocene.
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is a UK based artist and associate professor of Fine Art at the Arts University Bournemouth. He has exhibited internationally, with an extensive record of group and solo shows in London, New York, Berlin, Los Angeles, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Munich, and Miami. His most recent solo exhibition Downstream (Charlie Smith London) was accompanied by a publication with contributions from Gavin Parkinson amongst others. Shepherd’s research, in both academic and practice-based terms, is concerned with aspects of the Englishness, the occult, mythmaking, and counterculture. Recent concerns include the act of attempting to imbue the creative artwork with an effect; to enchant, the spell.
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is an artist, writer, director and academic. She directs The Alchemical Landscape project and is chair of the Cambridge University Counterculture Research Group. Evie’s cross-disciplinary writing and teaching finds her working on film, law, literature, visual culture, censorship, secret history and countercultural practice. Evie has been published by Contraband, Getty Images, Cambridge University Press, Intersentia and the BFI, amongst others. As an artist she has exhibited widely, has held a creative residency at Idea Generation Gallery, London, and regularly writes, curates and directs events and performances at venues across the UK. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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is an artist and lecturer at Plymouth College of Art where he covers practices such and animation, conceptual art, and games. He also holds an artist residency at Leadworks (Plymouth). Much of his personal work relates to decoding and illuminating the distinct thematic referred to as the English Eerie. He is interested in how the depictions of our rural landscape have links to folklore and magical practice, and the points at which ghostly resonances come to inhabit the same spaces as we do. Terence works in both digital and analogue mediums and his current project is a sequential narrative art piece that explores anxiety and disassociation from inside the head of the main protagonist.
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is a Devon-based (UK) artist and writer whose practice draws upon environmental issues, folklore and the Western Esoteric Tradition. He is particularly inspired and frequently haunted by the eldritch tales of Dartmoor, his local stomping ground. Current work includes writing and illustrating a book on Dartmoor folktales.
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is the Muriel Bradbrook Official Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Bad Trip: New Worlds, Dark Omens and the End of the Sixties (Icon, 2019) and an upcoming study of William Burroughs entitled Playback Hex. James has written for The Times, The i, Big Issue North, Fortean Times, Vertigo, Monolith and One+One, among others and has contributed chapters to books on the fiction of the 1960s, ghosts, psychedelia and contemporary protest. He blogs at Residual Noise and can be found on Twitter: @EndOfSixties.