Lifescape 2025
Solo exhibition at East Quay, Watchet, UK
Lifescape invites us to reconsider our relationship with the more-than-human world. Merging storytelling, technology, and scientific insight, the exhibition expands our awareness of a range of environments and the cyclical relationship between human habitation and natural succession.
Gallery 1 is an immersive, large-scale video installation combining advanced LiDAR scanning — used to create and animate 3D models of landscapes — with filmed scenes and a soundscape featuring a range of perspectives on the land (a lichenologist, folksinger, agroforestry farmer, historian, storyteller, forager and ecologist). This interplay between scientific imaging and delicate close-up footage, audio recordings and interviews highlights the colour and texture of the local landscape and offers a striking journey through what is often overlooked or misunderstood.
The exhibition continues in Gallery 2, a viewing and library space where Alice presents different aspects of her creative practice and research methods developed throughout the two-year project. The display features photography, samples, mapping techniques, and research materials, encouraging personal engagement with the places that shape our shared environment.
Many thanks to the huge number of people involved in the development and realisation of this project including:
Curator: George Harwood Smith, Assistant Curator: Millie Laing-Tate — Interviews: Phil Ganon (Mineral Line Association), Andy King (geologist, Gekoella), Sam Lee (folk singer), Tim Lyddon (forager), Martin Maudsley (ecologist and storyteller), Jim Nicholas (The Market House Museum, Watchet), Cerys Rivett (architect and agroforestry farmer, With the Wild CIC), and Pat Wolsely (lichenologist, Natural History Museum) — Film Credits: Animation and Editing: Ollie Palmer (artist, filmmaker), Camera, Sound Recording and Editing: Cecile Embleton (artist, filmmaker), LiDAR Scans: Jens van der Zee (researcher, Wageningen University), Sound Design: Leonardo Cauteruccio (sound designer, filmmaker) — Natural Pigment Specialist: Susannah Crook — Display Design: Jeffrey Hart.
With support from CBK Rotterdam and Mondriaan Fonds.
Images: Alice Ladenburg, with Cécile Embleton (footage stills) and Jens van der Zee and Ollie Palmer (point clouds)