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Canvey Guides
(part of Art U
Need, commission for Commissions East 2007), image of launch
day on Canvey Island, showing local resident David Cain
leading a tour of the island. Photograph by Anne Kathrin
Greiner Voices of Leysdown.. Leysdown-On-Sea Resident Artist Lucy Harrison The Leysdown Residency has been developed in response to the Rose-tinted Project and will aim to: · Frame and articulate the existing and inspirational character and qualities of Leysdown-on-Sea. · Engage audiences with the heritage and future of the site, making connections between the existing natural landscapes and its future as a space for recreation and tourism. · Target the local traders to participate with the project. · Encourage a sense of ownership amongst the communities who live and work around Leysdown: creating opportunities to re-engage with the landscape. · Provide learning opportunities for local artists, to encourage their creative development (through talk and/or seminar event) · Produce through a process of continuous research a body of site specific artwork which is relevant to Leysdown and the local traders.
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The Stratford Grapevine, (commission for Art on the Underground 2008), newspaper stand in Stratford Underground station, photograph by Daisy Hutchison Lucy Harrison’s work investigates the subjective nature of the experience of place and connections between memory, location and architecture. Her work takes the form of photographs, book works, video and various forms of printed and published material. Her projects often engage with the public realm through collaboration, encounter and exchange, and involve residents of a place in the work. She has developed projects such as Canvey Guides, (2007) part of Art U Need; An Outdoor Revolution, (a commission managed by Commissions East and led by Bob & Roberta Smith) which involved working with local residents to make an ‘alternative’ guide to the island, and included the setting up of the Rendezvous Walking Club. In 2008 she worked on a commission for Art on the Underground at Stratford station, east London, and produced a newspaper called The Stratford Grapevine, written by people who live or work in Stratford and given away in the station to passers-by. Lucy Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Print & Digital Media) at University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury.
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