When Night Draws In
Sarah Woodfine
9 - 11 June 2006

In spring 2006 artist Sarah Woodfine collaborated with eleven adults who were using mental health resource centres run by Wandsworth Mind, an organisation that provides community based social care for people who experience long term mental health issues. Woodfine and the participants undertook a creative journey in workshops exploring the familiar yet fantastical terrain of the night.

Beginning with concepts and processes rooted in Woodfine's drawing-based practice, they collectively experimented with the transformation of drawing into pop-ups, model landscapes and theatre sets. The final photographic works play on the apparent three-dimensionality of these dreamlike worlds.

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"Because of an incident in the past, I don't enjoy walking in the woods at night. It appears to me that there are all these curious and dangerous creatures in there, especially the trees themselves. It feels like the trees can move and grab you at night enclosing you in their strong pliable branches, allowing the creatures to touch you. You can easily get lost both physically and mentally. When the moon shines on the trees it gets really scary, glittering darkly in the dank dark night."

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