RECLAIMING THE WILD
An Immersive Goddess Art & Audio Exhibition
19th October to 27th October 2024
at Lisa Lochhead Gallery & Studio, Heritage Centre Courtyard, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 1QY
‘Reclaiming the Wild’ is a visual and audio cyclical journey with 8 Goddess Archetypes and their mythologies. Each Goddess also has an associated bird that brings a message as the symbolic language of the ancient Bird Goddess.
The whole exhibition is created as a Rites of Passage where you move through a cycle of reclaiming the wild nature of your Soul, back from the mind made world of modern-day life with all its burdens and complexities. A doorway is opened to connect into the language of the Goddess and a lost ancient knowledge that activates a new level of Feminine Consciousness awake inside of you.
Birds play a pivotal part in the exhibition as you connect with the ancient veneration of birds as divine messengers and the symbolic language of the ancient Bird Goddess, who is also known as the Great Goddess. In many mythologies with Gods and Goddesses from around the world birds play an important part in the imagery and symbolism. In this exhibition each Goddesses has a ‘Totem Bird’ woven into the artwork with her.
In our modern day lives we have lost our connection to the pulse and rhythms of the earth and to the way the Goddess speaks to us through nature, and all Her beings. Through the rocks, the stones, the trees and all Her creatures. Through the wind, the sun, the moon and the stars and the many great Beings embodied in the land. This exhibition is in honour of the Great Goddess, the Divine Feminine principal that sustains, nurtures and shapes our lives yet whose reverence is lost from our daily lives and conscious awareness.
‘RECLAIMING THE WILD’
An Immersive Goddess Art & Audio Exhibition
The Journey
You will journey with 8 Goddess Archetypes and mythologies from around the world. From tales of the Swan Maiden to the giantess Skadi of Norse Mythology, the Goddess Amaterasu of Japan, Irelands Morrigan in her form of the old woman, the Crone. To Sequena the River Goddess who leads you to Sheela-Na-Gig and her portal of power calling the Shamanic realm of transformation and your soul responsibility to the Great Goddess in you awake
Booking Is Essential
Each booking slot for the exhibition is for 2 hours with a maximum of 6 people in the Gallery in each booking slot. This is so you can immerse yourself in the art, audio and interactive journey.
Arriving at the Exhibition
You will need to bring with you to the exhibition a phone with internet access and headphones. When you arrive you will be given a special link so you can access the audio part of the exhibition. NO PHOTOS ALLOWED INSIDE THE EXHIBITION
After Viewing the Exhibition
You can browse the shop area which will be set up in the studio with prints, products and materials all related to the exhibition available for sale.
Collaboration
This exhibition is also raising awareness of the plight of the Curlew bird in the UK which is now considered to be vulnerable to extinction. Collaborating locally with Fenns, Whixall and Bettisfield Nature Reserve and the national organisation Curlew Action.
10% of the admission ticket fee will go to the local nature reserve supporting the monitoring of curlews.
There is a language of birds as old as time speaking of initiation into the symbolic language of the Great Goddess. Over thousands of years Goddesses and Deities have revealed the use of their wings to depict the rising of the Soul into its home in the great unending sky. Women as the first Shamans knew this language, this way and as custodians of the Earth they bought higher knowledge, Divine insight to the tribe, circle, community in the days when all knew a woman could fly.
BOOK YOUR EXHIBITION VIEWING
‘Reclaiming the Wild’ Art & Audio Exhibition starts on Saturday the 19th October through to Sunday 27th October. Due to the nature of my work most of the viewings dates are for women only with the exception of one date which is for men and women mixed on Friday 25th October.
Two times each day are available for Admission.
Admission: 11.00am to 1.00pm and 2.00pm to 4.00pm
Admission Cost: £15 per person.
Booking is essential. Book your place through clicking on your date in the calendar below.
Click on the date you wish to book then choose your Admission time.
Contact Lisa
For any press or media related queries contact Lisa directly on lisa@lisalochhead.com
For any other enquiries including for Group Bookings larger than 6 please please use the contact form below.