Thanks to Literature Works for an amazing residency also thanks to Custom House team, Exeter Port Authority and Canal Office, SW Archives and all walkshop participants and everyone who came to say hello. The benefits of a residency are many and include rare opportunity for complete focus and scope (even in peak summer) and space for new work to emerge with the support of the partners involved, for which I am very grateful.
I enjoyed six precious weeks of focus and immersion at the Wharfinger’s desk and in his office in Custom House Exeter Quay. These were my writing base and inspiration for practice research on writing and walking/ and the theme of ‘Vessels’ while also tuning into the sounds and resonant memory layers of of this place as reflections gather and shape from these busy waterways and the complex heritages of a port of trade/ ship canal for the final commission.
The posters in the photos above were poster poems/ art of the participants in two walkshops at dusk walking the quay and pacing our watery ideas/ storylines.