A monumental new giant has risen from the imagination
of over 200 people from Somerset and Dorset.

Co-created from landscape, story and ritual, the Radical Ritual Consequences Giant stood alongside the Cerne Abbas Giant – a powerful new figure woven from the creativity of community.


Together we are giant.

Witness the giant appear again:

📍 Yeovil – Summerhouse Hill, 13–14 Sept

📍 Corfe Castle – 20–21 Sept

Consequences reimagines the stories our nature and landscapes tell and connects people together in a giant game and reflection of belonging.

A new giant is shaped collectively by communities through a process of walking and immersing in nature, creative play, storytelling, and ecological making.

Where our landscapes hold intangible heritage imbued with myth, ritual, and power much of which we no longer understand, this new giant embodies inclusivity, belonging, imagination and care creating a new myth for these times made by many hands.

The co-created artwork begins with creative adventures in landscapes and workshops held with communities.

Participants explore the natural heritage of their region, gathering stories, sketches, and plants which are transformed into inks and paints with artist Grace Emily Manning which the group then use to create their giant body part.

Each group co-creates a section of the giant without seeing what the other group has created, imagining attributes that reflect their lived experience, connection to place, and hopes for the future.

The storytelling strand, led by Sita Brahmachari, supports participants to shape narratives about belonging, identity, and landscape. These stories – personal, mythological, poetic are illustrated by Nick Hayes and woven into a larger written and illustrated artwork. Musician Douglas Dare collects voices, sounds, and field recordings. These fragments are layered into a new composition. The soundscape accompanies the unveiling of the giant, transforming the site into a living ritual of folk art and community.

The final Consequences Giant, at least 30 x 40 metres is rigged by climbers onto a cliff or hillside for an audience of thousands.

Because all communities deserve to feel giant and all landscapes have a unique story to tell… where will the next giant appear?

“Access to land is important and I am fortunate to be able to access green spaces, but 92% of the countryside and 97% of rivers in England are not publicly accessible. When you add race and class into that mix, so many people are excluded from the simple pleasure of roaming freely. “

UK-based visual artist Wanja Kimani

THE game of consequences

What is it?

A playful, collaborative drawing game where you and others each draw part of a mysterious creature – without seeing what the others have drawn. Just like in the giant version of the game. Together, you’ll create beings rooted in imagination, the land and waterways, revealed only at the end.

Inspired by Radical Ritual’s mission to reconnect us to the wild and to one another, this is a small ritual you can do at home with friends, family, or neighbours – gathered around a table or spread out on a picnic blanket.

You’ll Need:

  • A sheet of A4 (or larger) paper for each creature

  • A pen, pencil, crayon, or marker for each person

  • 2–6 people

  • Optional: leaves, twigs, or found objects for added inspiration

How to Play:

Step 1: Fold & Prepare

  • Fold the paper into four equal horizontal sections, like an accordion.

    Lightly label (or just remember): Head, Body, Legs, Feet.

  • Set an intention: Before you begin, take a moment. You might close your eyes, take a breath, or reflect on this question:

    “What kind of creature might live in the landscape around me?”

Step 2: Draw in Secret

Each player will draw one part of the creature in turn:

  1. Head

    • Draw a head: wild, wise, funny, fierce, or gentle.

    • Leave two lines at the bottom to suggest where the neck meets the body.

    • Fold the section backwards so it’s hidden. Pass the paper on.

  2. Body

    • Draw a torso and arms or wings – maybe a tree trunk with feathers, or a cloak of stars.

    • Leave two lines to show where the legs will go.

    • Fold and pass on.

  3. Legs

    • Draw whatever supports this being – legs, roots, stilts, spirals.

    • Leave a hint for the feet, then fold and pass.

  4. Feet

    • Draw the feet or base – maybe hooves, wheels, roots in soil, or stones.

    • Don’t fold again – set it aside for the reveal.

Step 3: Unfold & Reveal

Once all parts are complete:

  • Gently unfold your paper, revealing the full creature for the first time.

  • Laugh, wonder, and sit with what you’ve made together.

Nick Hayes, Writer and Illustrator:

“We aim to inspire people to think about what belonging to a landscape means to them, what community looks like, and how diversity and difference can collaborate to create unity. With the final image shared in public space, this vision from young and marginalised minds is spread onto the place, reflecting their own view of the world back, positioning loud and proud onto the place they inhabit, a billboard of inclusive belonging, proclaiming a new, modern myth.”

The Consequences Team

  • Becca Gill

    Artistic Director

    Becca Gill is an award-winning UK artist and producer and Artistic Director of Radical Ritual, creating large-scale, site- specific public artworks that explore themes of memory, ecology, technology, and connection. Her work often invites deep community participation in response to specific landscapes, amplifying underheard voices and overlooked stories through immersive installations and collective rituals.

    Selected examples of commissioners: Creative People and Places, Lost Weekend, Mayfest, Inside Out Festival, Without Walls and Nature Calling – National Landscapes. Supported by Arts Council England, Wellcome Trust and British Council among others. Previously as Head of Programme with Trigger, she has delivered acclaimed works including The Hatchling, a spectacular outdoor event in Plymouth and The Queen’s Jubilee, Ground and Teabreak. Previous works such as Dreaming Places, Wonderfolk and Forever Me each used technology, storytelling, and embodied participation to connect people to place and one another.

  • Emily Williams

    Executive Producer

    Emily is a Consultant, Executive Producer & Coach based in Bristol and working across the Creative Industries in the U.K. She has spent the last 15 years working with organisations and artists nationally and is the former CEO, Theatre Bristol, Executive Director, Situations and Executive Producer, Kaleider. Through her work she builds relationships with artists and organisations that are people-centred, that seek bold and ambitious ways of doing things, and that change the way people see the world. 

  • Grace Emily Manning

    Grace Emily Manning RCA is a multidisciplinary artist from Kent, now living in Birmingham. She works across performance design, experimental animation and fine art. Her environmentally driven practice responds to landscapes' ecology, history, and folklore, crafting new stories and fantasies using natural and waste materials found on-site; brewing plant dyes, inks, and paints to infuse landscape into the very fabric of a story.

  • Sita Brahmachari

    Sita Brahmachari is an internationally celebrated author of children and young adult fiction. Her work is grounded in community cohesion and environmental protection. Sita’s novels, plays and poetry explore themes of 'Home' and 'Belonging' and centre the voices of global majority people whose stories cry out to be heard.

  • Nick Hayes

    Nick Hayes is a writer, illustrator, and printmaker. His most recent book, The Book of Trespass, was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. It is a non-fiction account of climbing over the walls of the politicians, aristocrats, and media magnates that own England, and a call-to-arms for more public access to nature.

    He is co-founder of the Right to Roam campaign, which seeks to make nature more accessible for all.

  • Ina Miller

    Production Manager

    Ina is a freelance production manager living and working between London and Rotterdam. She has over 15 years professional experience as a technical and production manager, working across a breadth of productions and projects based within theatres and festival settings in the UK and beyond! 

  • Douglas Dare

    Composer

    Douglas Dare crafts intimate, cinematic music that blurs the lines between art-pop, modern classical, and electronic minimalism. With his arresting voice and evocative storytelling, the London-based artist has drawn comparisons to James Blake and Anohni, yet his sound is uniquely his own—melancholic, raw, and deeply affecting.

    Since his debut album Whelm (2014), released on the esteemed Erased Tapes label, Dare has captivated audiences worldwide, performing at venues from the Barbican to Berlin’s Funkhaus. His follow-up albums, Aforger (2016) and Milkteeth (2020), further showcased his ability to weave personal narratives into haunting sonic landscapes, earning widespread critical acclaim from The Guardian, Pitchfork, and BBC Radio 6 Music.

    With his latest release, Omni (2024), Dare expands his sonic palette, blending his poetic lyricism with pulsating EDM textures, collaborating with label mate Rival Consoles on lead single Mouth to Mouth. 

  • Paul Reardon

    Paul Reardon is an independent designer producing design, branding and immersive experiences in the physical and digital world. He has 22 years’ experience in design and creative direction. His work focuses on physical spaces, visual design and digital immersive arts to develop unique narrative based projects in arts and culture. Having worked on the concept development of the Imagine Project site in Kyoto, Japan for Yoko Ono, Paul formed a collective with the same team and designed Seirei - a series of high end Japanese artisan speakers.   

    Paul’s experience as a designer and director spans a broad range of projects working with diverse audiences, communities and social groups. Notable recent UK projects are collaborations with Bristol based Trigger Collective. These include PoliNations, A digital companion piece to a horticultural installation where your thoughts and feelings are imagined as a unique digital flower in Augmented Reality - and Ground Unearthed, an AR project containing a series of stories about food inequality activated by a 3d printed ceramic seed.

Advisory group

  • Nick Llewellyn - Access All Areas

    Access All Areas makes award-winning, disruptive performance by learning disabled and autistic artists, and works to make our culture more inclusive. We engage communities, train artists of the future, and work closely with TV, film, and theatre companies to make their work and workplaces more accessible.

  • Dr Zakiya Mckenzie

    Dr. Zakiya McKenzie is a writer and cultural historian based in Bristol, UK. In 2019 she was writer-in-residence for Forestry England and in 2021 she was artist-in-residence at Studio Voltaire in London.

    Her 2021 Rough Trade Books historical fiction pamphlet Testimonies on the History of Jamaica Vol. 1 explores the natural and social history of Jamaica in 1655 – the year Britain took the colony of Jamaica from Spain.

  • DR. SARAH FRY

    Sarah is a medieval historian, and a fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Her current work is about bringing out the voices of those people traditionally under-represented in the historical narrative. 

See the full story on Instagram

View fullsize Join us in Yeovil this weekend! The giant will awaken on Summerhouse Hill in Yeovil to the sound of a parade. The communities who have made the giant with us will come together for a colourful celebration of togetherness in a joyful parade and you
View fullsize We want to pause and say a huge thank you to everyone who made the Consequences Giant possible. From the many brilliant minds and hands who shaped the work, to the skilled team who brought it to life and rigged it on the hillside – your craft,
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View fullsize Together we are giant. On the radical ritual of gathering community. A piece by Sita Brahmachari. Read it in full at the link in our bio. 🌿 Witness the giant emerge: 📍 Cerne Abbas – coming soon... 📍 Yeovil – Summerhouse Hill, 13&n

Consequences is a Radical Ritual Production that has been commissioned by the Dorset National Landscape as part of Nature Calling, a project of the National Landscapes Association, in partnership with Activate and supported by Poetry School. Funded by Arts Council England, Defra and the Dorset National Landscape.  Supported by Imaginators.