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Abrasion
 
   
Phare View - brick pebbles, seaweed
 

Abrasion was born out of a conversation between artist Malca Schotten and myself on Happisburgh beach on the north Norfolk coast.  We had been asked to put together an exhibition for the King of Hearts in Norwich and had discovered a shared interest in Happisburgh, a village which has been slowly disappearing over the cliffs into the North Sea over the past 30 or so years.  We wanted to convey the rawness and the physical process of the eroding cliffs, as well as the enormous destructive power of the sea.

Some of this work will be shown in the village hall in Happisburgh in July 2011
   
   

Ebb and Flow - coastal pigment on aluminium

 

 
   
   
Malca made a series of large drawings, powerful and intuitive, some made quickly, others worked on over time.  I collected bricks from the beach that had once been part of buildings, containers for people, and had then been eroded by the sea into pebbles.  I made new containers out of them, naming them after houses that once stood in the village before the cliff had disappeared from under them.
   
   
                       
Undercut - suspended sheets of hand-made paper
 
 

I also collected pieces of fallen cliff - clays and sands - dissolved them in water and, working with erosion processes, made paintings and decorated hand-made paper with them
   
 
   

All photos by Liz McGowan

 
 

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