First shown at Tump's debut exhibition 'Bat, Moon, Womb' in April 2024 curated by Sacred Thing.
Bat, Moon, Womb's starting point is Hetty Pegler’s Tump, a Neolithic chambered burial mound in Uley, near Stroud. The artists have spent time inside the long barrow, creating automatic drawings and writings (a technique developed by the Surrealists in the 1920s as a way of tapping into one’s repressed psyche), assimilating its environment and carrying out a sensory archaeology through a combination of intuition, soil samples and field recordings. It is accepted that the tump was used as a place for burial, but we will never know the full extent of its significance. It is this unknowing that Tump have found to be fertile with inspiration, imagining histories and reconsidering their own connections to life, death and the land.
Tump is Alex Merry, Flora Wallace and Milligan Beaumont.
DOP - Eoghan McDonaugh
Video Editing - Narna Hue
Makeup - Nina Margaretha
Soundtrack - Cosmo Sheldrake & Flora Wallace (Don't)
Soundtrack incorporates recordings of Pipistrelle bats and subterranean soil recordings.
