This month I’m beginning a project that will run throughout 2020, as artist in residence at Crow Park in Keswick. I’ll be working with the North Lakes National Trust to run a socially engaged art project as part of Trust New Art. Through the project I’ll work with communities around Crow Park to respond to the site’s history as a picturesque ‘viewing station’, it’s role in struggles for land access and ownership, and to collectively build stories for the future.
The project will create a dialogue between the town, the park and the lake – a series of storied landscapes that hold a tension between change and preservation. Through walks, workshops and events we’ll explore urgent contemporary questions about our connection to the natural world, the ways that we ‘frame’ nature, climate change, and a sense of place in fragmented times. I’ll work with local groups and visitors to map stories of Crow Park and generate future fictions as a way of reflecting on the past, imagining the future and asking what is important to ‘hold in trust’.
These co-created stories will form the basis for a series of performances and temporary artworks shared on site in the autumn.
Follow the project here.
