Heavy Gardening Art Trail Photowalk
Join Open Eye Gallery’s Creative Producer Andy Yates on a guided photowalk of the ‘Heavy Gardening Art Trail’ for LightNight 2021. Starting at FACT, Andy will take you between the 7 art installations, inviting you to capture the trail and take part in a series of photography challenges. There will be 2 photowalks on the evening, each with up to 12 spaces available.
Photowalk 1: 5pm – 6:30pm
Photowalk 2: 7pm – 8:30pm
The trail will finish at Wapping Dock where you can continue to enjoy the rest of LightNight 2021.
Share your photos with us #HeavyGardening @dotartliverpool @openeyegallery
More information will be sent to participants closer to the date.
What is the Heavy Gardening Art Trail?
dot-art and Open Eye Gallery will launch a trail of seven art works, sited along the Baltic Corridor from Wapping Dock to Bold Street, produced by internationally renowned artist Andrew Merritt of Something & Son. Andrew will transform seven small pieces of public infrastructure (such as billboard, drainage system, vent systems), to make them useful for other species.
The title is based on the idea that the project is essentially gardening the city and in the process using scaled up tools/equipment usually reserved for human centric infrastructure and heavy industry such as ventilation systems become homes for sparrows or electricity transformers acting as places for bats.
The installations will be living shrines to various species mimicking the cross cultural tradition of wayside shrines. These are often small shelters placed by a road to honour the memory of the victim of an accident or placed along a pilgrimage route – in this case the ‘accident’ is ecological and the pilgrimage is for other species.
Alongside the artworks, we are working with local communities to produce seven short films, accessed by QR codes at each site. These will highlight various aspects of the project, showcase nature-based artworks made by community groups and encourage local people to see the benefits of greening their environment.
This commission forms part of the wider EU funded Horizon 2020 URBAN GreenUP project currently taking place in Liverpool. dot-art, Open Eye Gallery and First Take were commissioned to deliver the art element of the project.
For more information contact andy@openeye.org.uk
Image: Andy Yates
Join Open Eye Gallery’s Creative Producer Andy Yates on a guided photowalk of the ‘Heavy Gardening Art Trail’ for LightNight 2021. Starting at FACT, Andy will take you between the 7 art installations, inviting you to capture the trail and take part in a series of photography challenges. There will be 2 photowalks on the evening, each with up to 12 spaces available.
Photowalk 1: 5pm – 6:30pm
Photowalk 2: 7pm – 8:30pm
The trail will finish at Wapping Dock where you can continue to enjoy the rest of LightNight 2021.
Share your photos with us #HeavyGardening @dotartliverpool @openeyegallery
More information will be sent to participants closer to the date.
What is the Heavy Gardening Art Trail?
dot-art and Open Eye Gallery will launch a trail of seven art works, sited along the Baltic Corridor from Wapping Dock to Bold Street, produced by internationally renowned artist Andrew Merritt of Something & Son. Andrew will transform seven small pieces of public infrastructure (such as billboard, drainage system, vent systems), to make them useful for other species.
The title is based on the idea that the project is essentially gardening the city and in the process using scaled up tools/equipment usually reserved for human centric infrastructure and heavy industry such as ventilation systems become homes for sparrows or electricity transformers acting as places for bats.
The installations will be living shrines to various species mimicking the cross cultural tradition of wayside shrines. These are often small shelters placed by a road to honour the memory of the victim of an accident or placed along a pilgrimage route – in this case the ‘accident’ is ecological and the pilgrimage is for other species.
Alongside the artworks, we are working with local communities to produce seven short films, accessed by QR codes at each site. These will highlight various aspects of the project, showcase nature-based artworks made by community groups and encourage local people to see the benefits of greening their environment.
This commission forms part of the wider EU funded Horizon 2020 URBAN GreenUP project currently taking place in Liverpool. dot-art, Open Eye Gallery and First Take were commissioned to deliver the art element of the project.
For more information contact andy@openeye.org.uk
Image: Andy Yates
