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Archive for 15/07/2010
Residency at College Lake Reserve
15/07/2010 by James.
I went on my first visit to the College Lake Nature Reserve last week. Its a Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) reserve, near Tring in Buckinghamshire.
Its a beautiful and surprisingly large site, and I’ve driven past the half-hidden entrance many times on my way to visit family in Hertfordshire. There’s a large lake with small areas of woodland and chalk grassland, and a wealth of bird and animal life including breeding polecats, sand-martins, barn owls etc.
I’ve been commissioned by Outdoor Culture to create an installation in one of the bird hides, together with artists Martin Prothero and Linda Cornwell, responding to the site and its wildlife.
I’ll also be working with Ashmead Combined School in Aylesbury, to support reception age children to explore the reserve and their own grounds in creative ways.
The bulk of the work will be taking place from September, but I don’t want to wait to go back until then, so will be making a return visit soon to spend some time watching and recording the insect and bird-life, and finding out more about the site’s history as a chalk quarry.
The ideas are certainly bubbling up already, its a great opportunity to explore how man-made landscape features can be developed for wildlife, and how the arts can be used to support people’s developing environmental awareness. I’ll be back soon with more information, images and artwork as things develop…
In the meantime, for more information on Outdoor Culture just follow this link…
And to read more about the Trust and College Lake see
www.bbowt.org.uk/content.asp?did=23523
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