Spring Fall – an exhibition by National Park Artists in Residence: Boredomresearch

This May the New Forest National Park Artist in Residence Programme welcomes back boredomresearch.

The Programme – in partnership with arts charity Spudworks, invites artists to explore the relationship between people and the New Forest through creative residencies. Boredomresearch is the collaborative practice of artists Vicky Isley and Paul Smith. Using animation and programming they simulate and reimagine natural processes. Combining scientific research with their creative speculations to reveal the interconnections between ourselves and our more-than-human world. The work was developed during boredomresearch’s New Forest Artist Residency in October 2025 through exchanges with rangers, ecologists and archivists. These insights informed the exhibition, grounding it in the lived and managed realities of the New Forest landscape.

‘Spring Fall is a meditation on memory, impermanence, and the incalculability of loss in the natural world. A moving image installation transfigures the final fall of a bark-stripped beech tree in Bolderwood. Leaves dance in defiance of gravity, carrying traces of a forest memory – suspended on borrowed time’.

 1 – 30 May 2026

At SpudWORKS, Station Road, Sway SO41 6BA