In The Temple

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Hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2021 collaboration On We Go, artist Catherine Bagnall and poet Jane Sayle return with another collection of watercolours and poems inspired by their contemplation of nature within the context of the feminine sublime. In the Temple maintains a focus on ecological thinking, exploring intense personal connections with the natural world that take the reader into the realms of private ritual and the power and meaning of special places. In the Temple evokes a magical atmosphere, a mythological world of enchanted places with powerful and intangible connections to other living beings and to history. Inspiring a deep spiritual-ness, grief, joy and the wonder of being in the thick of it, it is a gem of a book to return to again and again.

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CATHERINE BAGNALL grew up on the bushy eastern shore of the inner Wellington Harbour, where her interest in mythological worlds and enchanted natural spaces began. Inspired by Rosi Braidottis theories of the post-human and especially the idea of a new love of the world, Catherines work depicts the twenty-first century life of non-human creatures and forest-dwelling girls in the wild green places of the natural living world. She says: I think trees are so utterly important I worship them. A recognised experimental watercolourist, maker of objects and performance artist, she also lectures in fashion, art and design. L. JANE SAYLE grew up on the south coast of Wellington. She has been a dealer in curios and ephemera, an art writer and reviewer, a lecturer in the history of New Zealand visual culture and a traveller. In 2021, collaborating with Catherine Bagnall, she published On We Go, a book of poems and paintings exploring personal connections with the natural world in the context of the feminine sublime.