Ways of Knowing Deben Soundings at ArtSpace, Thoroughfare, Woodbridge Friday 14th April from 12.00 The Deben Soundings research programme has now been running for over two years, and we would like to take the opportunity to invite you to a small exhibition to summarise what we have accomplished and to inform you of our plans to … Continue reading Deben Soundings
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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 … Continue reading Between Flotsam and Jetsam
Within the living memory of the dead
This was an opportunity to explore the symbiotic relationship between a community and its landscape based on an understanding of how each affects the evolution of the other. Landscapes impinge, enable, or determine livelihoods to varying degrees: sometimes they dominate, sometimes they are overcome, and sometimes they are just accommodated and ignored. The intensively managed … Continue reading Within the living memory of the dead
Interests in conflict and in harmony
It is not unusual for the tendency of distinctive landscapes such as the Deben estuary to break down to overlapping spheres of interest. These different sectors and zones achieve a harmony despite inevitable tensions arising from the continuing evolution of the lives and livelihoods of a small community that has learned to live with itself … Continue reading Interests in conflict and in harmony
Big skies and intimate landscapes
Our second event of the Deben Soundings series, held in December 2021, was a short walk between Ramsholt Quay and Shottisham Creek for 20 people (Figure 1) who represent a range of interests in the estuary, returning to the Ramsholt Arms for discussion, soup and rolls. This section of the estuary encapsulates a surprisingly diverse … Continue reading Big skies and intimate landscapes
The tail that wags the dog
As restrictions on movement and meeting eased, we have been able to resume planning some of our original project workshops - focusing on meetings around the Deben, with those practiced in science, arts, management, and policy, to further discuss the management of estuaries and their changing environments. Our first event was in the first week … Continue reading The tail that wags the dog
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 … Continue reading A conversation with …
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 … Continue reading A conversation with …
Deben Soundings – the Artspace exhibition September 2020
Deben Soundings @ Artspace Woodbridge The Deben Soundings exhibition at Artspace in Woodbridge arose as a direct response to the challenge of launching our programme of public engagement following current Covid-19 protocols for social contact. Our original intention was to conduct the entire project as a series of participatory workshops, to explore best scientific knowledge … Continue reading Deben Soundings – the Artspace exhibition September 2020
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