We are thrilled to announce the return of Living Coast, our exhibition inspired by the South Holderness coastline and its resilient communities across time. This time, we bring the exhibition back to where it all began: Kilnsea—at Sue and Andrew Wells’ brick barn at Westmere Farm (June 19th to 24th). This location is not just […]
on 18 June 2024
Thanks to Sam Hawcroft, Editor of the Holderness Gazette, for this lovely preview feature article on our exhibition Living Coast – shortly coming to Westmere Farm, Kilnsea.
on 13 June 2024
When the land has gone, but a place lives on through its people, we can still make maps—drawn from their memories. This sentiment lies at the heart of Living Coast, our latest exhibition at Humber Street Gallery, which opens today and runs until June 16th. The exhibition invites visitors to explore the profound connection between […]
on 8 June 2024
Thanks to Rebecca Hannant for this lovely review of our second performance of Between Two Tides in this week’s Holderness Gazette
on 16 May 2024
Today, we concluded the first day of performances for Between Two Tides with members of the local community. These shared events have been designed as both a celebration of the South Holderness coastline and a reflection on its people’s deep connection to the landscape. Site-specific, eco-arts performance, as we have learned throughout this project, uniquely […]
on 9 May 2024
Today, we had another site visit, and our reflections returned to the transient nature of the South Holderness landscape. As arts researchers, we’re increasingly aware of how this fragile environment is not merely a backdrop to our work, but rather a living entity in constant negotiation with forces beyond our control—forces that are both longstanding […]
on 7 May 2024
Today, our site-specific work brought to life the intricate dance between nature and human achievement through a series of material creations and physical movements. The design team brought to site for the first time eight rod-puppets representing the little tern birds that nest here annually in Beacon Lagoons. These delicate puppets were crafted from ‘withies’—tough […]
on 26 April 2024
Today, we focussed on the final site-specific design work for Between Two Tides, which centres on creating two cairns and crafting objects for the performers to manipulate during key moments. The design team have conceived the cairns as sculptural installations built directly from the land, using both indigenous and ‘erratic’ rocks. We arranged these rocks […]
on 25 April 2024
Today, our scenography for Between Two Tides reached a new level of integration with the landscape. The design team have now spent spent months conducting research and development visits to the site, immersing ourselves in its natural features to understand how the coastline can become not just a backdrop setting, but a dynamic part of […]
on 23 April 2024
Today, I completed my first poem Spurn for the project. It marks the beginning of a longer cycle of poems that will celebrate the unique landscape of South Holderness. In these poetic works, I will deliberately and purposefully anthropomorphise the South Holderness landscape—or rather, ‘de-phusimorphise’ it, borrowing terminology from the French ecological ethicist and philosopher […]
on 9 April 2024