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Lundy’s Granite Quarries: Walking Through a Changed Landscape
Explore the history of the Lundy Granite Company and walk through the quarry landscape, where industry, nature, and creative practice meet.
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Wild Weaving Blair Witch
One of my weavings featured in Wild weaving is on the Beach Road. It is situated in the trees, just as you turn the bend into the sheltered Millcombe Valley. This weaving was woven at the end of 2022 and has now been there for nearly 8 months, it is still completely intact. This has…
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Lundy Weatherscape
An exploration of Lundy’s weather and how wind, fog and rain shape walking, movement and daily life on the island.
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Empty, or Emptied? Walking in a Landscape of Absence
This week, while looking back through old study notes, I came across notes from a lecture on working in isolation. Stephanie Owens gave the lecture at Arts University Plymouth. She responded to her experience as an art student at the beginning of the pandemic. This was a time when isolation became both enforced and strangely…
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Weaving in Millcombe Valley, Lundy
Experience Lundy Island in May through a walk in Millcombe Valley, where wildflowers, birdsong, and weaving connect landscape, season, and making.
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Sense in Nature
Practice in Context I am currently studying a Masters in Fine Art at University Arts Plymouth. As a regular walker, I am interested in human engagement with the landscape. The research for my next module ‘Practice in context’, is about how humans connect to nature and specifically which of the five senses people engage, when…
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Wild Weaving
Although I have woven on twigs/branches at home, with an aim to feel more connected to the environment I headed outdoors. My goal was to get out into nature, walk and weave within the trees. The only problem with this is that Lundy is a granite rock and doesn’t have many trees. However as we…
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Fire and Water
Lundy is located off North Devon, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Bristol Channel. Its a rugged and remote Island. Having being fascinated by a documentary that featured Julie Brook’s Fire Stack, I was keen to see if I could create something similar on Lundy. I was intrigued to see how the elements of water…
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Shipping forecast
..Sole, Lundy, Fastnet Shipping Forecast 28th November 2022 Wind. Southwest 6 to gale 8 veering west 7 to severe gale 9. Sea State Very rough or high, but rough at first in north. Weather Rain then showers. Visibility Good, occasionally poor Living on a granite rock in the middle of the Bristol Channel, edging onto…