Category: writing
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Exploring Lundy: A Poetic Morning Walk
A morning walk on Lundy Island to discover the Lundy Haikus along the Felix Gade, where poetry, walking, and landscape quietly meet.
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Lundy Standing Stones: Original Song by Jane Harris
Creation of the “Standing Stones” Song The “Standing Stones” song was born from a walk with Jane Harris of Songways as we walked amongst the standing stones on Lundy Island. During this walk, we read Haikus from a recent Ginko Walk. As we wandered and conversed, we discussed the Haikus and the stones, sparking curiosity…
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Lundy Postcard Project: Exhibition and PDF Book
Many Lundy visitors participated in the Postcard project, resulting in 80 responses. The postcards were exhibited at St Helens Church Lundy, and compiled into a PDF book accessible to all. The book allows viewers to revisit the postcards and potentially find their own contribution.
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PostSense
An exhibition of postcards as part of a MA project at University Arts Plymouth and Lundy 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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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…
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Felix Gade Hut: A Hygge Writing Retreat on Lundy
A quiet walk across Lundy Island leads to a spontaneous writing retreat at Felix Gade Hut, where walking, stillness, and shared creativity come together.
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The sight of the walker
A reflection on William Sharpes article – Part One This is the first part summary taken from William Sharpes paper in Walking Bodies (2020), on reading the paper, I started to find alignment with my work which Sharpe (2020) talked about. The first statement Sharpe ponders is whether; ‘walking art offers its proponents a choice;…