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I'm back at the Kielderhead Wildwood, five years on from when I first started working with them as artist in residence through VARC (Northumberland UK).

Five years ago, all that was on site was a lot of low-lying brush and thousands of trees in deer-guards.

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Shane Finan Full Circle AiR with Kielderhead Wildwood - Varc

In 2020, Shane Finan was selected to take part in the project ENTWINED, partnering with the Kielderhead Wildwood Project—a community-led initiative in northern England where over 30,000 native trees were planted in the Northumberland uplands.
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From the main site of the wildwood that was first planted in 2017-18.

First photograph is 2021, the second is 2025.

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Many deer-guard tubes in a brushland with some small trees peeking out from the top of some of them, but most appear to be empty.
A rich scrubland with many trees in the tubes that once seemed empty. They are mostly taller than an average adult now.
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Me and two others planted a stand of 200 birch and rowan trees out on the moor in 2021.

It rained sideways, hailed, and snowed, and we carried heavy equipment over very rough terrain. We named it Varda Wood, after Agnés Varda. The trees were whips, inside tubes, no more than half a metre tall.

Now some of them are taller than I am.

A cluster of deer guard tubes in a brown moorland landscape.
A bracken-filled moorland over a river. The area is close to the first photograph, but in this image there are trees growing out of the tubes as long, thin lifeforms.
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I chose to come back in summer this time, because I wanted some of the trees to be in leaf. I underestimated how much the bracken would hide them in photos. In any case, I think it's visible in the photos how much they have grown. My apologies to anyone with colour issues.

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