“... exciting concept of visual art in landscape – different from Goldsworthy because it has people in landscape but still captures the temporal nature of things."
John Barwise
Environmental consultant and chairman
of Cumbria Green Business Forum.
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London Based Artist Evewright produced two new contemporary experimental Drawings - Walking Drawings - over two days in September at Silecroft Beach in Cumbria the North West of England.
Picture this...
15 Cumbrian Heavy Horses; 15 riders in black; a drawing in the sand.
This was Walking Drawings on 15 September at Silecroft, Cumbria - in a 60mph gale.
We couldn't have imagined it, yet the horses still gracefully and obediently walked Evewright's drawing.
Then this...
Sun bright day (not a drop of rain); people dressed in black ; a bigger drawing in the sand.
This was Walking Drawings on 16 September and we used the day to walk people through Evewright's drawings in black clothes and brightly coloured ponchos. For some, it was a day to spend an extraordinary and individual birthday experience; for others it was 'My role in nature, it's role on me'. For John Barber, our tractor driver, it was 'The best thing I have done in my life'.
The film and photography from both days are stunning. We will let you know as soon as this amazing footage and photography are available for public viewing.
There was extensive media coverage, first on BBC Radio Cumbria and BBC NorthWest Tonight then the Metro newspaper, who decribed Evewright’s work as 'Art by Sand Banksy'. To round off the week, Walking Drawings featured in BBC Newsbeat's 'Oddbox' as well as receiving extensive local newspaper coverage.
Thanks to all involved for enabling Evewright Studio to make this happen - our funders, The Big Lottery, Lancaster and Lancashire Councils, partners, SAKS Media, co-producers, Neath Films, the walkers, Cumbrian Heavy Horses (horses and riders), More Music, Cedric Robinson, poet Ebele Ajogbe and Morecambe Bay Partnership.
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Silecroft