Digitally printed design 2018
RiV Project artist commission
Exhibited at Bath Quays Forest of the Imagination 2019
Green Park Festival of Nature 2019
Bath University Campus 2019
With artist talks at The Edge & 44AD
Amsterdam Waterways festival 2020
The inspiration for Flood Flags is the historic depth markings under Ha’penny Bridge and visually mapping a sense of the volume of water that collected during these events. The flags were designed to be sited in the new flood conveyance park a little further down the river translating the depths to demonstrate how the body of water would now be dissipated.
Having studied the archived flood mapping I used the topographical shapes to inspire the patterns of water within the flag fabric design and the different flood depths are demarked by subtle changes in colour and identification of each year flooding occurred.
The work was commissioned as part of the River is the Venue project linking artists with researchers at University of Bath to explore sensory outcomes from academic investigations.