Celebrating the Earth with Rachel Portman, Julie Brook and Nick Drake

A three-way conversation about the creative process, inspiration and collaboration between artist Julie Brook, composer Rachel Portman and poet Nick Drake, with music extracts, film and poetry readings that celebrate and honour the Earth and the Elements.

‘Music, to me, is always suggesting images or stories or emotions’ Rachel Portman

In conversation with artist Julie Brook, award-winning composer Rachel Portman, and poet Nick Drake will expand on their collaborations, Earth Song and Tipping Points, that draw inspiration from the environment and elements. In their discussion, they will explore with Brook her elemental work, Firestack, and the connections and differences between process and expression across the three disciplines, and how this is presented to an audience.

‘The Firestacks possess a vast echoing power in the landscape and mind’ Robert Macfarlane

On Nick Drake’s The Farewell Glacier ‘Works of gentle genius and astonishing insight into the voices of those who have visited this vanishing world since ancient times’ Ann Funder

This event will last approximately 70 minutes without an interval.

Continue the conversation around art and the natural world at Tracing Light Film Screening. Explore parallel responses to place in Different Worlds at Pangolin London, housed in the same building as Kings Place.