Arianne Churchman
Arianne Churchman is an artist from Suffolk, East Anglia. Her practice concerns British Folklore and traverses performance, film, sound, fabric works and objects. Recently, she has been developing a Dream Horse Cult, whereby Suffolk Horselore is reimagined into strange new feminist collective histories and new psychedelic dreamscapes.
The Tree Of The Left Hand
* Edition of 250. LP housed in hand screen printed front and reverse sleeve * Arianne Churchman and Benedict Drew present The Tree Of The Left Hand on Folklore Tapes, a mystical journey through folk magic and theory fiction exploring tree folklore. Through harmonium, analogue synths and layered vocals, they create a dream world where everything is reversed, recorded at the haunted Suffolk bungalow of artist Mary Potter.
The Tree of the Left Hand begins at the Tree itself, where through mycelium …
May
May is a double-LP collection of recordings made between 2020–2023 by Arianne Churchman & Benedict Drew (AC&BD), whose ongoing series channels, inhabits and transmogrifies the vast corpus of traditional English folksong celebrating the most fertile of months. An auditory tapestry, May employs at its base a flank of analogue synthesizers, field recordings and Churchman’s layered vocals, each combining to form a beautifully dizzy sonic collage that often spirals out across long durations into hypn…