Sally Hampson
District Two:Cotswolds
I am planning to reconstruct the walk that Kitty Lake - anthropologist, explorer but also a very keen and knowledgeable naturalist - made in 1936. Based on pages from her journal, notes on the flora and fauna she encountered together with samples discovered among her collections, I will attempt to trace the route she followed with her own donkeys, Atlantic and West, following her footsteps along the same path.
Workshops
The workshops will focus on examining the ways in which the evidence for Kitty's journey, including her journal and samples, was created, and how these informed the work produced during my own walk.
Ideally, participants in the workshops will undertake a short, guided walk of their own, collecting samples and taking notes which will then be used to document a journey, constructing narratives based on found objects and clues, in which the central character may be fictitious.
Images
The first image is from Kitty Lakes travel journal in 1929 in Egypt's Western Desert and Sinai, where she travelled with her Bedouin guide, by camel, but also her proffered mode of transport has always been donkey as the photograph reveals.
Second image is a portrait of Kitty Lake.
Louisa Fairclough
District Five: Gloucester
My current work uses tidal water, light and voice as material, the films drawing on a
number of cycle journeys along the River Severn, sleeping each night on the water’s edge.
I am interested in the use of one thing (a film strip) as a measurement of another: the
width of a river, the time it takes for the bore tide to pass, the length of a shout and the weight of grief.
Making work on the River Severn has up to this point been a solitary process and so for
As I Walked Out I plan to make work at night. I will be joining the walk to the River Severn around the time of the full moon this July and will carry with me a dark room tent to process photographs, a medium format camera, a number of pinhole cameras and a bivvy bag to sleep outside under the moon.
Over the weekend I will be running a pinhole camera workshop on the River Severn:
You are invited to come along and make your own pinhole camera and capture a few seconds in time on the edge of the River Severn: the surface of the river's water, the movement of the rushes, a self-portrait? We will learn how to process the photographs in a dark room tent before hanging them from a washing line to dry. Leave with a pinhole camera, a photograph and sense of wonder!
