site-specific-work
Dorothy's Room is an immersive installation created in Dorothy Wordsworth’s bedroom at Rydal Mount in Ambleside, Cumbria and inspired by Dorothy Wordworth's Rydal Journals in which she was bed-bound relying on memory to transport herself into the landscape she had once walked. Dorothy's Room is a companion project to Women's Walks to Remember: 'With Memory I was there.'
Women’s Walks to Remember: 'With Memory I was there' is a surrogate walking-art project in which I re-walk significant walks that women are no longer able to undertake. These remembered walks may have been associated with work, leisure, adventure, health, remembrance, creativity, science, companionship or solitude. They may no longer be possible because of ageing, illness, accident or changing circumstances.
Harold's Walk: A Walk to Remember developed from Mulliontide (2016), when conversations with care home resident Harold Potter led me to re-walk one of his remembered Cumbrian walks. That first surrogate walk became the starting point for the later Walks to Remember series, exploring memory, landscape and walking on behalf of others.
Remembrance: Returning, We Hear The Larks is a site-specific performance-installation created with Lancaster Priory and its congregation to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. It opened as part of Light Up Lancaster 2018 Light Up Lancaster 2018 and continued throughout the following week as part of Remembrance Weekend and The Battle's Over, marking the end of hostilities on 11 November 1918.
Mulliontide is a coastal walking-performance from Poldhu Cove to Mullion Cove in Cornwall. Focusing on a much-loved landscape, it explores the places where land, sea and people meet, recognising the effects of tide and time and acknowledging deep feelings for place and the challenges of personal and topographical change.
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Warnscale: A Landmark Walk Reflecting on In/Fertility and Childlessness is a self-guided walking artwork set in the Warnscale Fells above Buttermere. Through walking, writing and site-responsive interventions, it reflects on childlessness-by-circumstance, landscape, absence and belonging, inviting walkers to experience the fells as places of contemplation, remembrance and renewal.
The Gathering / Yr Helfa is a site-specific walking performance created in collaboration with Hafod y Llan Farm in Snowdonia. Inspired by the annual sheep gather, it reveals the day-to-day and seasonal workings of the farm while exploring cycles of fertility, reproduction, work and landscape. The performance took 200 participants on a six-kilometre circular journey through the landscape and into the farm, where they encountered installations, performance, film, poetry, music, sound and everyday farming activities.
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Fissure is a three-day site-specific walking performance in the Yorkshire Dales. Eighty participants make a journey by train and on foot, following a twenty-mile route that circumnavigates, descends beneath, and finally ascends Ingleborough. Along the way they encounter poetry by Elizabeth Burns set to music by Jocelyn Pook, dance choreographed by Nigel Stewart, and a series of creative and scientific interventions in a shared exploration of life, death, grief and renewal.
Ghost Bird is a silent walking performance and live-art installation created for the Langden Valley in the Trough of Bowland, Lancashire, an upland landscape internationally important for its heather moorland, blanket bog and rare birds. Referring to the ghostly grey feathers of the increasingly persecuted male hen harrier, the work reflects on absence, loss and persecution, drawing connections with the journey made over the Bowland Fells to Lancaster Castle by the "Pendle Witches" over 400 years earlier.
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Jack Scout (17 - 26 Sept 2010) was a walking-performance specific to Jack Scout, an intimate location in Silverdale, Lancashire, of bewitching beauty and extraordinary aesthetic, cultural and scientific value overlooking the vast sands and tides of Morecambe Bay.
Still Life is an intertidal performance created for the sands of Morecambe Bay and the shoreline at Far Arnside, Lancashire. Co-produced by Sap Dance and Louise Ann Wilson Company, it explores how we frame nature and what lies beyond the frame through walking, installation, movement and the changing conditions of the intertidal landscape.