FourthLand
Artists weaving new myths of land and people
Wild Medicine circus
Artists Bios
Jessica Eichman is an artist, pilgrim, and yogi based in Nashville, Tennessee and Cambridge, England. Jessica’s current work is inspired by dream imagery, archetypal symbolism, and travel through inner and outer landscapes. She created the Voice of the Lands oracle deck as a result of the Vessel of Pollinators journey. She is a certified yoga instructor, reiki healer, and is currently training to guide individuals and groups in earth reconnection through relationship and ritual. Her work has been exhibited in the Frist Art Museum, Huntsville Museum of Art, Nashville International Airport, and can be found in public and private collections across the US and internationally, including permanent public art collections.
For The HIVE Jessica will be offering, The Voice of the Lands alongside sessions in restorative and sonic yoga.
Magi Winmill-Hermann is an artist based in the North East of Scotland focusing on ritual arts where she marks thresholds in life. Her practice normalises ceremony into day to day gatherings. She brings song and rhythm to the land and works to find the hidden colour in what is under our feet. Bringing together a lifetimes work of accepting and rejoicing in the unfinished notes of life, the beauty in the rehearsal and unexpected results.
For The HIVE Magi will be offering an experience, A sacred holding
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Patricia Brien is a Stroud-based curator, artist, researcher and Lecturer at Bath Spa University in Critical Design Thinking. Her praxis is formed in ecofeminist approaches to ecological and social justices. This interest is based on a belief that humans are part of an animate world but this spirited world is subjugated to late capitalism's ongoing colonial project. By working and storying with ancestral lineage, historical research into place, materiality, ecology, mythology, dreams and human rights constellations she opens dialogue in ritual, in meditative practices and installation art. She is the curator of Cacao House Stroud.
For The HIVE Patricia will offer the sharings; meeting our Birth River, I grew in my grandmothers womb and Horse archetype.
Annabie Daly, is an multi-faceted artist based in the mountains of north Wales. Her practice is enamoured by the magic of music and its transformative power for healing and resilience. Weaving song, soundscapes, immersive theatre and multi-lingual writings, her work plays among the liminal, the peripheral and the tender pulse of the present moment. She invites courageous vulnerability and collective joy towards building ancestral futures together.
For The HIVE Annabie will be offering the workshop, Songs of Praise and Pulse and performance Singing into the waters.
Cat Rogers is a storyteller, writer and creative facilitator with over 20 years’ experience supporting artists, writers and creative enterprises. Through Kairose, she brings this experience into a new space where she weaves myth, folktale, dream and seasonal wisdom into stories and creative journeys that help people reconnect with imagination, authenticity and the natural world. Inspired by astrology, tarot, nature and the unseen, her work invites deeper connection to self, others and the more-than-human world. Kairose — drawn from “Kairos” (a Greek word that can mean the 'right time') and “Rose” (an essence which is heart-opening that brings both protection and gentleness) — is a space to offer storytelling and creative guidance designed to nurture joy, empowerment and meaningful creative expression.
For The HIVE Cat will be offering a roaming experience of Kairose roaming, Artemis, mother animal and baba yaga.
Serazer Pekerman is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice deeply shaped by her background in architecture, a PhD in film studies, and authorship of two books published in Turkish. Symbolized by her name meaning "source fire," Pekerman works conceptually with darkness, silence, memory, and the womb. Her art acts as a vessel for healing past trauma, collecting scattered fragments, and reclaiming wholeness.
The first is a ritualistic performance in Greece where she burns a mask while walking in water, merging fire and water. The second documents a collaborative curse-lifting ceremony created with Clare Carr-Saunders in Fife, Scotland.
mature Fine Art student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), following two years of Art and Design at Fife College
For The HIVE Serazer offers two video documentations for the exhibition.
Clare Carr-Saunders as a practioner works intuitively, choosing whatever material feels alive to her at the time, often moving between sculpture, painting and textiles. Alongside her art practice, she works in mental health, supporting people in their recovery from trauma, which informs her view of the world. Inspiration often emerges through dreams, journaling, and conversations with others, leading her to explore topics that are deeply personal and difficult to fully explain or understand. Using metaphor and the creative process she gives form to these emotional and internal landscapes, often returning to themes of grief, love, motherhood, and self-witnessing. While practicing like this, she pays attention to what is revealed, often finding deeper clarity, connection, and meaning through the process.
For The Hive Clare offers, The unravelling performance, and Poppet making workshop
The golden thread, travels and connects places and people through subversion, making the sacred flourish in the normal through care and repair, from inside the volcanos to the depths of the ocean, amplifying the voices of the more than human, the children and the future generations.
For The HIVE, the golden thread offers a range of experiences to be discovered and chanced upon.
Vasiliki Sifostratoudaki is a visual artist and educator whose practice explores everyday rituals - personal and communal - to reveal the dense, complex, and vulnerable intersections of embodied and spatial histories. Her work, much like mycelial threads beneath a forest floor, connects unseen histories and raises questions rather than offering conclusions. Positioning herself within a space of polyphonic dialectics, she develops her practice as a living score or invitation, composed through reflections with those she encounters—human and nonhuman alike—and with the lands she traverses.She is the founder and curator of Yellow Brick (2016 -) and member of Mouries Collective (2020 -). Her research has been supported by VAHA- Antulu Cultus, ZUSA, Necessity Fund, the Gwärtler Foundation Grant and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture.
For The HIVE Vasiliki, offers the workshop, Dreams with the river and a roaming practice of Spellbinding
Aga Tamiola flies effortlessly between ethereal and physical realms. With one foot in this world and one foot in the other, she weaves gentle rainbow threads connecting the city to the underworld. As a humble priestess of Hekate, she holds a bright torch for those on the crossroads, offering them the key they need.She believes in the healing power of art, nature and spirit to mend, rebuild and restructure identities in the wake of loss and displacement. Rooted in the woods and lakes of North Pomerania, her Soul Farmacy reaches into the city through a practice based in Berlin.
As a member of Core Shamanic Peace Laboratory, run by the Foundation of Shamanic Studies in Europe, Aga regularly engages in actions for peace. She invites you two join two walks for peace during the festival. You can also attend ‘Tell Me More’ workshop, in which she will share some divination techniques based on folk wisdom.
For The HIVE Aga offers two peace walks, Inner peace and world peace. Alongside Soul Farmacy a roaming offering.
Sarah Dark is a multimedia artist based in Nashville, TN. She has a professional background in music, ceramics, education, and information science. For the last 10 years she has worked as a threshold companion helping individuals access and tend the unconscious wisdom of their dreams and sacred intuition.
For The HIVE Sarah offers spaces for Dream tending alongside sessions in restorative and sonic yoga with Jessica.
Eliana Otta is a Peruvian artist who holds a Master's degree in Cultural Studies. She graduated from the PhD in Practice programme at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with a project entitled Lost and Shared: Approaches to Collective Mourning Towards Affective and Transformative Politics. She co-founded the ecofeminist collective Mouries in Athens and coordinated the curatorial team that created the permanent exhibition at Lugar de la Memoria in Lima. She also teaches yoga and makes people dance as Dj Flaquita.
For The HIVE Eliana offers the workshop Saluting the river, Saluting the tree, Saluting the bee. Alongside a roaming practice of Spellbinding
Maria Juliana Byck is a performance, voice, documentary, installation, and social practice artist originally from California but now based in Athens, Greece.
Her practice moves through the body as archive, a living site where past, present, and future breathe together. She works to access forgotten and marginalized inter generational, inter species, planetary ways of knowing. These wisdoms, held deep within our bodies, have been suppressed, yet never lost, only waiting. Her work reclaims and re imagines ritual and healing as method, returning us to one another, to our place within the web of existence. She is a founding member of the Mouries Collective.
For The HIVE Maria offers Rolling with the cards Alongside roaming practice of Spellbinding.
INVITED GUESTS
POLLINATION CIRCLE
Terra Sprague is an author, narrative researcher, gardener, and yoga nidra teacher who curates and contributes to projects that deepen the Human-Earth relationship. She is Director of Elerrate Writing Retreats and Blood Work. Terra writes blended and layered texts by bringing people into conversation on a particular topic and interweaving their stories with mythology and indigenous or local knowledge. Terra’s PhD addressed environmental change in islands using collaborative research methodologies.
For The HIVE, Pollination circle Terra will offer a story space for Moonblood stories
