HENRY BOURNE
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Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, Jane Wildgoose, #1, Jack in the Green, Hastings 2009.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, Jane Wildgoose, #2, Jack in the Green, Hastings, 2009.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, Joe Bailey, #1, Abbots Bromley Horn Dancer, 2009.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, Joe Bailey, #2, Abbots Bromley Horn Dancer, 2009.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, Christian Cornell, #1, The Straw Bear, Whittlesea, 2010.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, Christian Cornell, #2, The Straw Bear, Whittlesea, 2010.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, Bob & Claire Humm, Jack in the Green, Hastings, 2009.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, The Burry Man, #1, Queensferry, Scotland 2009.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, The Burry Man, #2, Queensferry, Scotland 2009.
Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales
Arcadia Britannica, Spencer Horne, Jack in the Green, Hastings, 2009.

Arcadia Britannica, a Modern British Folklore Portrait, photographed by Henry Bourne, print sales

Arcadia Britannica, Paul Whiting, The Straw Bear Festival, Whittlesea, 2010.

ARCADIA BRITANNICA – A Modern British Folklore Portrait by Henry Bourne.

Arcadia Britannica is a portrait project documenting the participants of British folklore events and rituals across the United Kingdom. Beginning in 2009, Henry Bourne made repeated journeys to some of Britain’s most ancient and enduring folk festivals — the Jack in the Green in Hastings,The Burry Man, in Queensferry, the Britannia Coconut Dancers of Bacup, the Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival — photographing their participants against a stark white background, isolating each figure from the spectacle and finding in them something eccentric, solemn and quietly extraordinary.

Drawing on pagan Celtic, Germanic and early Christian traditions, the series is both a portrait of individuals and a document of a living cultural heritage.  Arcadia Britannica was published as a book by Thames & Hudson in 2015, and the work has been exhibited at the Towner Gallery for Contemporary Art, the Central State Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg, and at Compton Verney and the University of the Arts London. It forms part of the permanent collection of the Museum of British Folklore.

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