Coastal futures
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The Held Sea
The Held Sea situates the seaside resort as a site for remedy and repair. We imagine taking care as a social, cultural and political experience that brings together collective care within communities (for each other, for the vulnerable, for the environments in which we live). This new round of residencies will investigate care through an…
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Shore Hunt
Shore Hunt was originally conceived by artists Rudy Kanhye and Lauren La Rose as part of their Fallow Land residency (commissioned by Art Walk Projects, (2025) developing a stretch of urban scrubland into a thriving habitat. Their Warning Lights mural, installed for the 2025 Art Walk Porty Festival, takes the beacon symbol as an indicator…
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Deluge
3 artists . 3 coasts . 3 partnering organisations Connecting three tidal wetland saltmarshes Artists: Linde Ex (Groningen, Netherlands), Dana Olărescu (Barrow-in-Furness & London, England), Oscar Van Heek (Edinburgh, Scotland) Deluge is a collaboration between three artists and three saltmarsh habitats (UK/Netherlands) exploring tidal wetland ecosystems across the sites of Aberlady, East Lothian, Scotland; Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England;…
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Buoyancy in unprecedented times
JENNY POPE connects early innovations in maritime travel with today’s climate crisis in order to address questions of collective anxiety and resilience. The project’s focal point is a hand-built ‘lifeboat’, a sculptural object influenced by coracles – small, rounded vessels used for millennia in Scotland, Wales and Ireland as well as in India, Iraq, Tibet…
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SALT
The first issue in a new journal series published by Art Walk Press. This publication includes chapters on the four SALT residencies produced in 2022-23 (artists Mahala Le May, Joanne Matthews, Tonya McMullan, Natasha Thembiso Ruwona) along with commissioned new writing in response to each, developed in partnership with MAP Magazine over the past year.…
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I looked out and saw plumes of salty air
As glaciers melt and heat evaporates water, the seas have changed. Matthews is testing speculative fictional environments in order to transform neoliberal apocalyptic narratives of doom and find hope in the dark. Weaving narratives from this parallel reality, Matthews is creating a salt world. Their work asks: how might bodies evolve to live with so much salt? And…
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PORT
5 ARTISTS . 5 COASTS . 5 WATERS . 5 SALTS Artist/curator Rosy Naylor invited five artists to come together and share dialogue around their walking habitats at a time when there were geographical limits upon the distances one could walk. Together a project slowly emerged with consideration and care around each of the five…