'ART and graft' combine to provide a first hand account of life on the farm at Buckland Abbey this month.
The abbey is hosting the 'Focus on Farmers' exhibition— the result of a residential collaboration between four teams of artists and three hill farms and farmers.
The artists spent six months living and working on the farms where they were installed as honorary family members and novice farmhands.
They held five-bar gates with one hand and steadied video cameras with the other as daily life on each farm was documented.
The farmers became involved in making artwork too — Kirsty Waterworth, artist in residence at Runnage Farm, Postbridge, said: 'The whole family's been using my minidisc.
'The farmer's wife set it up to record the sheep shearing and the farmer took it out to do his own talk across the fields!'
The resulting exhibition provides a fascinating insight into farming life — visitors can listen to audio interviews around a kitchen table or watch a video presentation projected onto a screen of living grass.
Neon and granite sculptures represent Defra ID numbers and a lectern holds photographs of daily farming routines.
The exhibition runs at Buckland Abbey from April 16 until May 5 before going on tour across the South West.