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Salt Trails 2009 - present
 

Collaborations with artist Jane Frost:  'Salttrails' and 'Mapping the Wind'

www.salttrails.org

In 2009 Jane and I offered a series of walking conversations for the exhibition at Salthouse Church curated by Simon Martin with the theme of salt.  We wanted to create work through relationship with place and people.  So we offered a series of highly flexible walking dialogues arising out of the encroachment of the salt sea on the coastline at Salthouse.

 

                                           feet on the land

                                     salt sea encroaching

                                    transient activity  

                                   tracing paths

                                  shingle bank regrading

                                 making connections 

  

 

Photo by Tim Frost
 

The conversations were grounded in an active relationship with the landscape, in the activities of walking and ephemeral art, and alive to the environmental effects of the source, process and use of materials.

 

 

Photo by Tim Frost

 

Photo by Tim Frost

 

Photo by Tim Frost

 

Each walk began and ended at Salthouse Church.  We invited walkers to bring back to the church a small object that would symbolise what they might be taking away with them from the experience of the day
 
 
       
Photos by Tim Frost
 
Photos by Tim Frost
 
 
Mapping the Wind
 
In a second project, part of the Cromer and Sheringham Festival and funded by the Sainsbury Centre's Culture of the Countryside Programme, we set up a wind diary in the shelter at West Runton which was used by hundreds of people of all ages to record personal experiences of the wind through writing, drawing, poetry and sketching.  We also organised a WindArt day, a Wind Walk, and a Wind Mapping Day.  Details and photographs can be seen at http://mappingthewind.wordpress.com/
 
Photo by Liz McGowan
 
Photo by Liz McGowan
 
 

 

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