A relaxed walk with artist and rock-climber Erika Cann, exploring ideas of boundaries, observing and ‘roaming’ both in a creative sense and in the landscape. A chance to explore Erika’s creative process and to learn about how creativity can be a tool to question, imagine and unpick big questions through a group walk.
The walk will start from The Projection Room, going down to the coast by Fairy Cove and Roundham Head to explore the beach and rock strata.
On this walk we will be exploring the connection of the local coastal landscape with concepts of deep time and the geological future. Through group discussion and sharing ideas, the walk will encourage conversations between people from different backgrounds working in/connected to the local area. All welcome!
Please note that the walk may be on steep, stepped, or uneven ground so please wear appropriate footwear. This event is weather dependent.
Booking
Places are limited so please book in advance on the link below. We aim to make events as accessible as possible, with free options and a suggested donation. If you can donate, this helps us support and put on other creative activities in Paignton.
About Erika
Through September, our Artist in Residence Erika Cann, is responding to the theme of Deep Time. Erika explores the relationship between bodies and geology, through her own body as a rock climber, and the more-than-human bodies we see in the landscape. Based in Devon, her work references local geological landscapes, from ancient granite tors, to the ever-changing Jurassic coast, to hidden lava flows beneath our cities.
Erika works across photography, printmaking and sculpture, to understand and re-create forms and processes within geology. Plaster imitates the formation of stalactites, print emulates the pressure and layering of fossilisation, and the photographic surface acts as a slice of time through the bedrock.
During her residency, Erika will be making work inspired by the geological past and future of Paignton, exploring the boundaries between geology and human, and natural and man-made. You can find out more about her residency here.