Field Notes: London

Field Notes: London is a blog developed as an expanded secondary site to document a creative project that took place in London from June-August in 2017, as part of an Associate Artist Residency with Acme. The project explored river systems, canals and bodies of water in London and South East England, with a particular focus on waterways acting as subversive peripheries, re-claimed in places by a largely unhindered semi-wilderness.

Outcomes of the residency project included a short film developed in response to the remains of a nineteenth century filter bed system in the Lea Valley, and two short films informed by the River Thames, on both its foreshore in central London and at its mouth, in the Thames estuary region. The latter films focus on the shape-shifting tidal and terrestrial narratives that suffuse the watery landscapes of the Thames and were the catalyst for an ongoing body of work exploring the circulation of water through the urban landscape.

Read an essay on my residency research, written for Photodust.

The residency was partially supported by The Copyright Agency.