Student Honorariums
Red River, 2021As part of Red River: Listening to a Polluted River, three recent graduates from Falmouth University were invited to make creative responses to this unique body of water. Visual artist Beth Clayton and photographers Jasper Fell-Clark and Harvey Gorst accompanied us on a series of public walks that took place along the river in summer 2021 to initiate their ideas, with the photographers also documenting the walks and the Red River Stannary.
As each response is completed it will become available on redriverpoetry.com
As each response is completed it will become available on redriverpoetry.com
Beth Clayton
Jasper Fell-Clark
Jasper is a photographer based in Cornwall. A recent graduate from Falmouth’s Photography BA, he is interested in the photograph’s ability to distil our surroundings, as well as the medium’s unique relationship to narrative.
Harvey GorstHarvey is a gardener and a documentary photographer based in Falmouth, Cornwall. He is head gardener at The End of the World Garden, a two-acre food forest and artist-led research facility near Penryn. His photographic work is closely related to his horticultural practice and he uses both outlets to better understand the complex systems on which we are all deeply reliant.
FUNDERS AND PARTNERS
Red River: Listening to a Polluted River is an 18-month research project led by Dr John Wedgwood Clarke of the University of Exeter. It explores how creative writing can transform our relationship to a polluted, post-industrial river through listening to the human and non-human voices that have shaped, and continue to shape, its course. Artists working on the project include poet and academic John Wedgwood Clarke, visual artist Naomi Frears, artist chef Mollie Goldstrom and sound artist Rob Mackay. Field Notes programmed a number of public events to share the complex impact of human activity on the ecology of the Red River. A series of walks took place along its banks over the summer of 2021 and in October the Red River Stannary was held at CAST, Helston which brought people together for a day of poetry, talks, presentations and discussions about the river.
Red River: Listening to Polluted River is supported by funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the University of Exeter and produced in partnership with CAST Cornwall, Heartlands, Literature Works and Kernow Education Arts Partnership (KEaP). The project is also supported by National Trust, The Poetry Society, Westcountry Rivers Trust, King Edward Mine Museum and the Red River Rescuers.
Red River: Listening to Polluted River is supported by funds from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the University of Exeter and produced in partnership with CAST Cornwall, Heartlands, Literature Works and Kernow Education Arts Partnership (KEaP). The project is also supported by National Trust, The Poetry Society, Westcountry Rivers Trust, King Edward Mine Museum and the Red River Rescuers.
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