Sounding The Wash

In 2025, I worked with Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and artists Sophie Marritt and Jane Scobie to create "Sounding The Wash", a temporary trail of sculptures and soundworks for exhibition at the Gibraltar Point nature reserve.

Inspired by extensive research, the artworks respond to the biodiversity and social heritage of the site within the wider context of The Wash (the part of the North Sea bordered by Lincolnshire and Norfolk, UK). They are a celebration of the life and heritage of The Wash, its international significance to wildlife, and a call to protect that life and landscape



For 'The Call of the Golden Plover', I used porcelain to tell of profoundly precious, fragile yet strong salt-marsh habitats. The swirling, connected movement of the water and bird migrations inspired the shape. The two dot-dah elements references Gibraltar Point's WW1 and 2 signalling and maritime heritage. The dah's swell and tail reflect the shape of the Golden Plover's call when visualised on the Merlin bird sound ID app.

Sited in an old look-out point with views over the salt-marsh to the sea, sometimes the seals could be heard singing from the creek nearby.




My "The Wash: Evolution?" sculptures and the accompanying fable were also part of the trail. The tiny hybrids tell a story of an imagined future, when animals and plants come together to discuss how to survive raising climate breakdown, sea level rise and pollution. The sculptures and fable are a call to responsiveness, care and compassion.

First shown on the beach at Holme Dunes, as part of an event commissioned by GroundWork Gallery in 2024, for Gibraltar Point I recorded the accompanying fable. You can find it here.