Exhibition
Low Lying: painting and poetry from the saltmarsh - Judith Tucker and Harriet Tarlo
5 Nov 2019 – 22 Nov 2019
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Address
- Westminster Reference Library
- 35 St Martin's Street
- London
England - WC2H 7HP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Charing X / Leicester Square
- Charing Cross
Low lying emerges from our continuing collaborative cross-disciplinary work on the east coast at Humberston near Cleethorpes. It brings together paintings and poems relating to the plants of the estuarial marshland and the human habitations just above it.
About
We have worked on the Humberston Fitties, one of the last remaining functioning plotlands in the U.K., for several years now, exploring the often self-built chalets, shacks, and sheds that lie low behind marshy beach and dunes, on a coast threatened by flood. Here we present recent work relating to the Fitties at dusk and in the night-time. These are shown next to new poems and paintings of the pioneering salt marsh plants of the area, plants that are both vulnerable to sea level rise, but that also help to protect the land from flooding. The work explores human and more-than-human worlds in microcosm and juxtaposition, touching on the play of light, tide and colour, uncanny transformations after dark, and notions of vulnerability, occupation, resilience and reclamation.
Shearsman Books invites you to join us on Friday 22nd November 6.00 – 7.45 pm for an in conversation with Katherine Wood and the London launch of Harriet Tarlo's Gathering Grounds, the collected longer poems from her collaborative projects with Judith Tucker between 2011-2019.
5th – 22nd November
Monday to Friday 10 am - 8 pm & Saturdays 10 - 5 pm
There is no step free access to the library.
