Current Winner
Hazel Reeves MRSS
Hazel Reeves is perhaps best known for her public commissions telling stories in bronze of the struggles for social justice and telling the stories of the lives of those missing from our visual and written histories. But her artistic practice is becoming wilded, her studio being at the heart of the pioneering rewilding Knepp Estate. She sees herself as a sculptural choreographer who harnesses the sounds of nature to tell stories of hope, of burgeoning biodiversity in nature havens like Knepp, where nightingales thrive yet face cataclysmic declines elsewhere. Hazel’s passion is creating playful, immersive, affecting nature soundscape experiences for all – involving birdsong and movement/dance – that participants find freeing, thrilling, joyous. These events bring people closer to nature, closer to each other.
