Making Space, Words Out Loud

The project is supporting an outreach and public engagement activity that includes a public exhibition, workshop and event in partnership with Havant based arts organisation Making Space and community literacy group Words Out Loud. The exhibition will display the project Losing and Landscape: Havant Thicket Reservoir, documenting the rare natural habitats that have now been lost to the construction of the reservoir. Voices of members of the community were recorded along with their portraits. The photographs were taken on medium format film, developed using seaweed collected locally and fixed with saltwater.
More environmentally sustainable practices are needed across all industry to combat critical climate change and biodiversity loss. The project will share the knowledge with the community with access to the natural materials required to encourage others to make and sell work using this sustainable technique. Additionally, it will amplify voices of this community to a wider audience in a new context, improve the well-being of the community by bringing people together to grieve the loss, and to encourage a cathartic creative response through spoken word and photography.