Where the Air is Rarefied by Susan Richardson and Pat Gregory

Exciting collaboration between poet and artist

Where the Air is Rarefied explores environmental and mythological themes relating to the Far North. A collection of their poetry and prints have toured galleries in Wales and beyond.

Praise for Where the Air is Rarefied

This poetry demands to be read alongside the visual images involved in its creation, not because it could not communicate alone, but because of that interplay it invokes and exploits between the two. The collection pushes Susan Richardson’s work well beyond her previous comfort zones, marking her emergence into a new breadth and vividness of voice.

Philip Gross

Susan Richardson is a poet, performer and educator based in Cardiff. Her collection of poetry, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, was inspired by her journey through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland in the footsteps of an intrepid eleventh century female Viking. She has been published in numerous journals and anthologies; is one of the poets-in-residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live and was commissioned to write and perform poetry for BBC2’s coverage of the 2009 Chelsea Flower Show. She regularly performs her work at festivals and environmental events throughout the country.

Pat Gregory has lived in Cardiff for 27 years. Her printmaking draws on themes from fairytale, myth and issues around personal and social transformation. She is interested in how an image might hold and address the tension between apparently contradictory ideas. Pat has been exhibiting since the late 80s, and has also produced ranges of cards and handmade jewellery. In 1997 she worked in India for two months on the final Wales Rajasthan artists exchange.