Billie is a visual artist with a practice deeply rooted in discovery, vulnerability, and the environment. She is drawn to spiritual, ritualistic and sacrificial methods of creation, often reflecting on life, motherhood, death and connection to place. She makes temporary land interventions, slow vertical format films and charcoal sculptures that reveal transformation and transience.

Billie is interested in how art might enable a new paradigm-shifting and sacred connection to carbon through anthracology or charcoal science. It is an expanding and relevant subject at a juncture with many traditions and disciplines, yet artists are often excluded from this conversation. Organic charcoal stores information on past human cultures, environments, climate, and contributes to future developments of agriculture (Terra Preta) or carbon sequestration, and biochar technology (storing carbon for the future). It fuelled humanity's rapid progress and is still essential in our technological development today.

Website www.billieireland.co.uk
Instagram @billieirelandart

Rob’s practice is guided by visions, memories, and dreams, exploring themes of landscape, sacred spaces and mortality through a materials driven process. His compositions and sculptural objects evoke curiosity and emotion, reflecting profound personal experiences surrounding grief and loss. These works act as portals into silent, intangible inner worlds, offering audiences access to seldom visited and otherworldly spaces.

Alongside this contemplative practice, Rob also produces work that engages with the absurd and can be darkly humorous. Through scratchy drawings, splattered paintings and roughly constructed sculptural objects, he captures fleeting thoughts and observations with a raw immediacy. These works function as streams of consciousness, offering satirical commentary on contemporary life and reframe the everyday through an offbeat lens. Together, these two strands of practice, one deeply introspective, and the other irreverent and observational, reveal a multifaceted approach that embraces both the metaphysical and the absurd.

Website www.thearthole.co.uk
Instagram @thearthole