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This year, Creative Arts East's summer exhibition
brings together poets and photographers from the east of England.
They are collaborating to create new work reflecting the people
and the landscape of Norfolk and Suffolk.
Reflections is Creative Arts East's tenth annual exhibition
and continues its tradition of free, family-friendly exhibitions.
Alistair Winch is Creative Arts East's tour manager. "Traditional
galleries can sometimes be perceived as a little stuffy and constricting
and that can put some people off.
"We like to get away from the feeling that people have to tiptoe
around and whisper. Our exhibition is not just about experiencing
quality art and poetry, it's about having fun," he said.
Two of the featured artists will be present during each day of the
exhibition to meet the public and talk about the collaboration.
The tour kicks off in style at The Forum in Norwich, before crossing
the region from Forest Heath to North Norfolk, Great Yarmouth to
King's Lynn.
Reflections features work by photographers Imogen Bardwell, Stuart
Goodman, Robert West, Caroline Wright and Lynda Williams with poetry
by Caroline Gilfillan, Andrea Holland, Andrea Porter and Anna Reckin.
Below is a personal statement from artists
Andrea Holland and Caroline Wright who talk about their collaboration
for this exhibition:
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Give Ground... focuses on Dunwich, a small
Suffolk village which whilst once a large town, is now being claimed
by the sea.
This coastal erosion, the narrative of Dunwich's
history (particularly the stories of graveyards and tombs opened
by falling cliffs) as well as the inevitability of further disappearance
are reflected in Give Ground.
The different elements of the installation bring
together the experience of walking on Dunwich beach: images reflect
the landscape and objects on the shore, the audio piece is a soundtrack
of the walk; an aural transcript including conversation, tales and
poems about Dunwich, along with background sounds of waves, wind,
the crunch of shingle and the noise of passers by.
The poem, Regress, looks back to the character
of this beach, acknowledges the on-going retreat of the shoreline
and is a coda to the collaboration.
The work for the exhibition takes the form of an installation complete
with postcard rack, deckchair, reading matter and CD soundtrack
(everything, in fact, for a pleasant day on the beach).
Personal statement by artists, Andrea Holland
and Caroline Wright.
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