Celebrating the Earth with Rachel Portman, Julie Brook and Nick Drake
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About the Event
A three-way conversation about the creative process, inspiration and collaboration between artist Julie Brook, composer Rachel Portman and poet Nick Drake, with music extracts, film and poetry readings that celebrate and honour the Earth and the Elements.
‘Music, to me, is always suggesting images or stories or emotions’ Rachel Portman
In conversation with artist Julie Brook, award-winning composer Rachel Portman, and poet Nick Drake will expand on their collaborations, Earth Song and Tipping Points, that draw inspiration from the environment and elements. In their discussion, they will explore with Brook her elemental work, Firestack, and the connections and differences between process and expression across the three disciplines, and how this is presented to an audience.
This event will last approximately 70 minutes without an interval.
Explore parallel responses to place in Different Worlds at Pangolin London, housed in the same building as Kings Place.
About Julie Brook
British artist Julie Brook makes sculptural work in the landscape including the deserts of Libya, Syria and Namibia; Hoy, Orkney, Mingulay, Jura, in Scotland.
Her recent work includes projects in stone quarries in Japan and Carrara, on a wild Hebridean coastline, and in the Upper Mustang desert, Nepal. In 2023/24, she had major solo exhibitions at Abbot Hall, Kendal; Komatsu City Museum, Japan, and Pangolin, London and a new publication, What is it that will last?
In 2025, Brook created a public commission, Tide Line, on the Fife Coastline.
About Rachel Portman
Composer Rachel Portman, of London, has written over 100 scores for film, television and theatre. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award for her original score for Emma.
Her works for the stage and concert hall include an opera based on Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, The Water Diviner (BBC Proms), Earth Song (BBC singers), Endangered (NCPA, Beijing), Tipping Points (violin concerto), Another Eve