About
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Working across a range of media, their work is site-responsive, creating new ways to engage with, and perceive, landscapes. They have partnered with a variety of organizations from the National Trust UK and Suffolk Wildlife Trust to Colchester and Ipswich Museums, British Art Network, Paul Mellon Centre, and they are part of the leadership team for UKRI funded ARISE research project.
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They employ active field research through observing and recording along with creative collaboration and exploration of archival materials to create dialogues, exhibitions and presentations in art practice to stimulate new ways of examining and understanding the landscape around us.
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The Power House’s location, with views across the shingle ridges, looking north, east and south to the shifting coastline of the Ness provides context for a series of creative projects for emerging and estalblished artists to engage and present ideas on themes such as: coastal climate change; the East Coast Flyway and migratory routes; botanical collections and data collection.
Sites
For the past five years, Blast Radius have been developing and curating a range of projects and work situated in two main sites in coastal Suffolk.
Orford Ness
For centuries the remote spit of shingle on the East Anglian coastline has been a place to test new ideas and technologies. One of the primary agendas during Orford Ness’ time during the twentieth century as host to the military, was the testing of explosions towards measuring the extent of destructive capacities. Blast Radius employs similar evaluative technologies, but towards the creation of artworks and the assessment of a site’s ecology. At the heart of their agenda is the impact of a creative impulse.
Find out more about the Internationally important coastal nature reserve owned by the National Trust
Martlesham Wilds
Martlesham Wilds is a new nature reserve being created by Suffolk Wildlife Trust. The site is almost 300 acres on Matlesham Creek, part of the tidal River Deben within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and across the river from Sutton Hoo. SE Barnet and Jane Watt are working with ecologists Dr Mark Bowler and Dr Daniel Mills (Researchers and Senior Lecturers in Wildlife, Environmental and Conservation) on a longitudinal study to evaluate ecological change through an art-science collaborative approach. The project examines the east Suffolk coastal river site as it transforms to a new pastoral landscape from one focused on arable agriculture to natural rewilding.
Find out more about the Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s Martlesham Wilds project.