We are excited to have been invited by St Albans Cathedral to develop new artworks and a programme of related events for the vast North Transept of the Cathedral in May 2025.
This new project, Watershed, has developed through our on-going engagement and concern about UK rivers. During Covid, we spent more time with our own particular local rivers – the Lea, Moselle and Ver, tributaries of the Thames. We documented these relationships in artists’ journals for Estuary Festival 2021 and created an augmented reality trail for Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2023 – A Wandle Wonder Wander – sharing the cultural and industrial past, and the present state of this very special chalk river.
Through closer involvement and hands-on conservation work, our connections and concerns have deepened. Watershed is a response to the violation of these rivers by neglect and mismanagement. We are transforming real-time river monitoring data and physical materials collected from the Ver into several large-scale installation artworks, through which we wish to create a dialogue with our local community about the Ver in particular, and rivers in general. The Cathedral is our largest exhibition space so far, challenging us to work on a bigger scale and be ambitious in reaching new audiences.
