lithicality is a space for stone culture and mineral thinking – domesticated, feral and wild.
Dr Alex Murdin is an artist who has been interested in rural culture and environmental politics throughout his career. To explore these themes further he set up the collaborative group ruralrecreation.org.uk in 2007 which has been commissioned for a number of public art projects across the UK. ruralrecreation has brought together unique combinations of artists, makers, scientists, landscape designers, ecologists, architects and others, together with different communities of place and interest.
During lockdown in 2020 he decided to go back to the beginning, the bedrock of our environment, and focus on stone, particularly the geology of Dartmoor where he lives – asking himself how to empathise with granite, wondering how collaborate with the rocks and engage with the ecologies, the cultures they create.
lithicality.space shows a snapshot of this body of recent work and ideas, including the new book Rock Idols: A Guide to Dartmoor in 28 Tors, published in 2025.
