{"id":3634,"date":"2024-02-04T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=3634"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:37:32","slug":"worm-root-wort-bane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/worm-root-wort-bane","title":{"rendered":"worm, root, wort… & bane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

worm, root, wort… & bane<\/em><\/strong>
by Ann Shelton
Published by Alice Austen House Press (US)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Artist Ann Shelton’s latest book, worm, root, wort… & bane <\/em>delves into the rich history of plant-centric belief systems and their suppression. Part artist scrapbook, part photo book, part quotography, and part exhibition catalogue, this publication explores the medicinal, magical, and spiritual uses of plant materials, once deeply intertwined with the lives of European forest, nomadic, and ancient peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

worm, root, wort… & bane<\/em> re-assembles fragments of historical knowledge alongside the first 19 artworks from Shelton’s photographic series, i am an old phenomenon<\/em> (2022-ongoing). The plant sculptures photographed are constructed by the artist, who has worked with plants since childhood and long been interested in the history of floral art and its expansive gendered resonances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overflowing with 300+ images and quotations, this book traces the loss of plant knowledge held wise women, witches, and wortcunners in post-feudal Europe, as Christianity spread and capitalism emerged. The book follows our changing relationships with plants, through the Victorian era to the present \u2014 offering cause to reflect on the consequences of the ongoing estrangement between humans and the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

worm, root, wort\u2026 & bane <\/em>features a multiplicity of voices, reflecting the assorted and sometimes conflicting beliefs that are held about plants, gender, and sexuality. Adopting an intersectional approach, the book quotes historical accounts, herbal advice, folk knowledge, and artist research, and draws from art, literature, film, and television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book also features new essays by photographic curator Susan Bright and Victoria Munro, Executive Director of Alice Austen House, as well as The Three Fates,<\/em> a short story by New Zealand writer Pip Adam, written in response to Ann Shelton\u2019s research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


<\/strong>Ann Shelton, P\u0101keh\u0101\/Italian (b. 1967, Aotearoa New Zealand) received her MFA from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, New Zealand and exhibits internationally. Her most recent museum survey, Dark Matter<\/em>, curated by Zara Stanhope (Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Ng\u0101motu New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand), was hosted by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o T\u0101maki in 2016 and toured to Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhet\u016b in 2017. Shelton\u2019s award-winning work has been extensively written about and reviewed in publications including Artforum<\/em>, Hyperallergic<\/em>, Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies<\/em>, artnet news<\/em>, The Art Newspaper<\/em>, and the Evergreen Review<\/em>. Her works are included in public and private collections throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelton is Honorary Research Fellow in Photography at Whiti o Rehua, School of Art, Massey University, Te Kunenga ki P\u016brehuroa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shelton works with Over and Under Fine Art<\/a> in New York, and Two Rooms<\/a> in Aotearoa.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Publication date: March, 2024
Flexicover | 132 x 210 x 25mm | 312 pages |
ISBN 979-8-9888148-0-1<\/p>\n

RRP $79<\/p>\n\n\n

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