Raku Jikinyū Author

Julie Brook studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and has been living and working in remote landscapes since 1989. Recent exhibitions include Made, Unmade (National Gallery of Namibia; The Wapping Project, London; Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh). Brook has featured on BBC4’s Forest, Field and Sky: Art in Nature, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Scotland. Dr Simon Groom has worked at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and Tate Liverpool, and is currently Director of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Galleries of Scotland. Alexandra Harris is Professorial Fellow in English at the University of Birmingham. Her recent publications include Weatherland: Writers and Artists under English Skies (2015), Time and Place (2019). Kichizaemon XV · Raku Jikinyū has devoted his career to exploring the possibilities of the traditional teabowl form in a constant search for new modes of expression. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His award-winning Underland, Landmarks, The Old Ways and Mountains of the Mind has been widely adapted for film, television, radio, stage and music.