Between Flotsam and Jetsam

Margaret Wyllie’s saltmarsh sketchbook January 2021 to April 2022 We are delighted to publish, in its entirety, this contemplative study by the artist Margaret Wyllie of a defined area of our estuarine landscape. This work was conducted in response to our Sounding Change open invitation to explore change at a specific location on the Deben …

Notice: Sounding Change Exhibition

Join us at ArtSpace Woodbridge for the concluding exhibition to our Sounding Change project that we and our participants have been progressing over the last 18 months. The project has been an integral component of our Deben Soundings project in exploring ways that an art-science collaborative approach can widen engagement in landscape decision-making. The exhibition …

April homework, Graham Kellaway

APRIL (COVID) GK / TWENTY-TWENTY ONE The contents of the kitwere not damaged from the drop for the kit was protectedby a sturdy cardboard box, that doubled as a prop,for the pot capped closeto mimosa, call it yellow,with a thin line measure. Purple-topped lancets numbered three altogether. For fingertips to spill to the six hundredth …

A conversation with …

Quite recently, the extraordinary photographic work of Liam Frankland was brought to our attention. Liam has been photographing The Knolls from the Felixstowe Ferry shore since 2019 and rather than creating a chronicle, has identified something timeless that speaks of diffused light, atmosphere and an abstract simplicity that binds together water, slivers of landscape and …

Sounding Change … over the long weekend!

It's been a busy few months for us all, despite the confinement of lockdown - and now as restrictions begin to ease up, we have a long weekend ahead of us to get outside and feel the benefits of spring (in a Covid-safe way!). Many of you will have seen some of the early progress …

Sounding Change Diaries I

Site: Saltmarsh at estuary of the Deben River (Flood Cell 1 of the Deben Estuary Plan) Artists: Margaret Wyllie and Jennifer Hall Diary date: Monday, 1st February 2021 Conditions: very very cold, cloudy with the air heavy with moisture, slight breeze Sounds: bird calls, bubbling/gurgling water Miggie and I met for a ‘distanced’ walk around …

A conversation with …

Having met Graham Kellaway quite early in our Sounding Change project - back in September 2020 when we first seeded the idea at our exhibition in Woodbridge - we were keen to catch up with him. Following the exhibition, he had responded to our invitation to annotate a map of the Deben with some very …

The National Coastal Path

You may be aware that in December 2020, Natural England submitted a report to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that presented and reviewed options to provide access to the coast between Felixstowe Ferry and Bawdsey - the National Coastal Path - around the Deben estuary. At our Deben Soundings exhibition …

Sounding Change

Thanks to those of you who have already got in touch about the Sounding Change project - it has been great to see so much interest across the community in connecting with the Deben environment and contributing to a mass observation over the coming year, and hopefully beyond. We are keen for you to use …

Sounding change: a year on the Deben

We are keen to understand what the Deben estuary means to you, and so would like you to participate in a study of change by capturing – in your own way – how the estuary varies through coming year. We invite you to select a location on the Deben that particularly resonates for you, and …