Relating to the environmental concerns surrounding Climate Change and rising sea levels.

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Various U.K coastline locations

2017 ongoing

A year long project commissioned by Dalston Eastern Curve Garden documenting the people, how and why they use this essential urban green space. 

Creating an open and honest dialogue with the garden's regulars. Spending time and connecting. to gain both verbal and visual stories.

2017/18

People Projects

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Project Wonderlands is an umbrella term for an ongoing series of conceptual environmental art projects in development since 2015 responding to the therapeutic needs of nature reconnection in our urban world; in our ever ‘growing’ concrete jungle.

An interdisciplinary body of work connecting nature, art and therapy. These research-based works explore the art process, ecopsychology and nature re-connection and include various nature-based commissions, workshops, site-specific projects, artist collaborations and field research.

Different projects in different places.

'Every piece is part of the Whole'

WEBSITE

2015 onwards

An image-based dialogue with artist Nicola Pomery using Instragram as a platform for sharing. An ongoing series responding to the previous imagery and exploring different line representations and visual metaphors for journeys in life. tbc...
#avisualconversation

Nicola Pomery
 

Various England and Internation locations
2017 ongoing

Urban ‘Mindful’ Photo walks

First in a potential ongoing series of experiential nature-reconnection photo “walkshops”.

The Bretton walk shop was devised for local residents to help capture and create a visual sense of place in a seemingly familiar urban environment. Using the photographic ‘process’, various mindfulness techniques and by exploring the surrounding green areas that are sometimes overlooked on everyday ‘A-B ‘ journeys, participants are invited to deepen their observations by exploring feeling and experiencing, rather than simply seeing. 

Bretton originally built in the 1970′s as a Township and designed as a green environment is connected to Peterborough’s Green Wheel and offers lots of green space. 

Commissioned by artist and urban researcher Katy Hawkins at Peterborough Presents and finished with tea and coffee in the pub!

As part of my Project Wonderlands body of environmental art works.

Bretton, Peterborough 

Aug 2018

Ongoing enquiry responding to the Thames Estuary. A collaboration with artist Nicola Pomery.

Essex coast, England.

2016 onwards

Conceptual environmental art tees relating to eco-psychology and the need for nature reconnection in our urbanised world.

Launched with Everpress on eco-friendly organic cotton.

Part of  Project Wonderlands 

Public art series in deprived or vulnerable areas relating to a Landscape ecology theory Biophilia that we are genetically programmed to feel 'safe' looking out to open flat-landscape horizons.

What started off as an imaginary 'mock-up' series of billboards throughout the U.K, by roads, on the underground, in derelict urban environments  in 2015, was realised on a billboard in 2016 on Welland council estate in Peterborough and a second in Dalston, London. With photographs taken from the Fenlands of Peterborough.. Welland was near to the murder plot of the re-opened case 26 years later for the child death of Rikki Nieve. This was a lucky find and a derelict site given permission for me to use from the new land owners.

Dalston Lane is an area currently under threat from building development and high levels of pollution.

With the right funding or commissions, I would like to research further into The Biophilia hypostheis and the science behind other psychological landscape connections, I hope there to be more in multiple U.K locations in the future. Maybe even some further afield. I would like to develop this as a participatory project and welcome landscape imagery; photography and painting from other artists. 

Desired locations are on the Underground, by busy roads, built up urban areas.

See more at Project Wonderlands.

Visual interruptions as a metaphor for our lack of nature connection in an ever evolving urban world.

Ongoing series

Various locations

2016 onwards

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Ongoing barefoot series of works

Part of my Project Wonderlands body of work

Barefoot walking #1 Cafe Oto visual poem ~ “A note on catharsis” 2018

Barefoot walking #2 Nene Park ~ “Off the beaten-path” 2019

Barefoot walking #3 HAY submission ~ “A Lockdown Wanders series” 2020

Barefoot walking #4 The Marshes after Lockdown ~ “Silent walk at Sunset” Summer Solstice 2020

Barefoot walking #5 Lauderdale House ~ A note on catharsis 2020

Sharing walks #barefootwalking #weshare #walkingart

Social Media Participatory project // To begin Summer, 2020

HEDGESANDEDGES

“THE MISSING PIECE AND THE PORTAL.”

- An open dialogue collaboration between artists Katy Hawkins and Sandra Keating on everything that is hedges. Born out of lockdown 2021 the explorations, idiosyncratic musings and visual observations have no framework or … Independently making connections from the more rural to urban perspectives. - Katy and Sandra have been working together since 2016…

https://hedgesandedges.tumblr.com/