Irene Rogan invites you to witness the performative installation of 'An Odyssey: Encountering Fear and Hope'. The event will take place on the incoming tide (between 11.00 and 12.30 p.m.) on 20th October and will become visible as you approach and pass over Foxfield Viaduct.
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Unpublished Tour builds on Irene Rogan’s earlier projects, The Making of a Cultural Landscape (GFTA 2018) and Between Silence and Light (GFTA 2019) as well as the strong community links she has developed in south Copeland, and in particular in the town of Millom and its surroundings, where the former industrial landscape that was centred around the ironworks that closed decades ago is undergoing a restorative process as it is reclaimed by the natural environment.
This ‘new’ landscape is brought into view through a focus on the hidden and inaccessible edges along the Duddon Estuary and an engagement with the restoration of Haverigg Dunes, which for Unpublished Tour are sites for a shared creative journey, explored variously from the land and the water, and the library and via online media.
Duddon Inshore Rescue team return to base with Irene Rogan and Tim Pugh after a tour. Image: John Scanlan / UCLan
Unpublished Tour therefore represents a process that will embrace environmental art and sciences including microbiology, geomorphology and archaeology in the surrounding landscape. Participatory events combine new artworks and workshops, walks, poetry, visual art, literature and performance - accessible across all age groups and backgrounds.
The underpinning purpose of Unpublished Tour is to draw local communities into a deeper engagement with the natural environment, by revealing the characteristics, features and qualities that identify the Duddon and Haverigg Dunes areas as places that are in need of special protection. A primary aim of this work will be to foster a desire for a living legacy, locally and nationally, that helps to preserve the Duddon Estuary’s unique qualities for future generations. The work, in part, is inspired by William Wordsworth's 'The River Duddon, A series of Sonnets' from which the project title 'Unpublished Tour' was later derived.
We are working in partnership with the Duddon and Haverigg In-Shore Rescue Teams, Cumbria Wildlife Trust - Dynamic Dunescapes, Local Schools and Millom Town Council.
Artists and other creative contributors to Unpublished Tour
David Baker, acoustic drummer
Larry Campbell, filmmaker
Dr. David Cooper, writer & co-director of the Centre for Place Writing, MMU.
Mel Galley, artist
Dr. Wallace Heim, writer and sound performance artist
Hannah Rose Kessler, singer and songwriter
Stephen Leece, photographer
Di McGhee, environmental artist
Tim Pugh, environmental artist
Irene Rogan, artist
Dr. John Scanlan, writer and researcher, In Certain Places, UCLan
Richard Scott, saltmarsh ecologist
Jo Wade, musician
Neil Wade, musician
Contact: unpublishedtour@gmail.com
