A wonderful weekend in Porthleven recreating the Sink or Swim projection installation on the Old Lifeboat House for the finale of the inaugeral arts festival. My sculptures, Swinging the Lead and All at Sea were also on display in Trevor Osborn’s garden for the opening event, last weekend and looked very dramatic with spotlights in the dark.
Such a delight for these works to return to Porthleven which inspired their making during a residency in 2019 as their 2020 exhibition was cut short when we went into the first national COVID lockdown.
Swinging the Lead was inspired by conversations with Nick Hardcastle (RIP) while he was building his beautiful wooden skiff, discussing the tensions between Rick Stein’s tourist restaurant and local fisherman Gary Eastwell and the BREXIT vote. Life on the coast is not an easy balance!
Setting up the projection box by the pill box in Porthleven
Sink or Swim projections on the Old Lifeboat House