Projects
The SWLA has a long history of highlighting the importance of habitats, plants and wildlife through on-site art projects. Working in partnership with local communities and conservation organisations, members of the SWLA have revealed unique portraits of the areas they visited.
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5 September 2023Wadden Sea, Denmark, May 2022
The second residency of the SWLA Wadden Sea Project.
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9 August 2019Wadden Sea, Denmark, October 2019
In October 2019, a group of ten SWLA artists together with freelance writer Colin Williams embarked on an ambitious collaborative project with the Wadden Sea National Park in Denmark.
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30 June 2020Kingcombe Project 2017
The Kingcome Project was a partnership between the SWLA and the Dorest Wildlife Trust, highlighting the richness and diversity of the Kingcombe Meadows Nature Reserve
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9 August 2019The Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project, Essex, 2014–2017
During four residencies from 2014 to 2017, SWLA artists partnered with the RSPB to deliver a project that recorded and highlighted the transformation of Wallasea Island in Essex back into an intertidal coastal marshland.
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9 August 2019The Turkish Sweet Gum Project, 2016
The Turkish Sweetgum Project was an EU funded partnership between SWLA and Doğa Koruma Merkezi (DKM), a Turkish environmental NGO highlight the conservation of the Turkish Sweet Gum forests.
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30 June 2020Wildlife Trust Undersea Art Award, 2012–2016
The Wildlife Trusts and SWLA collaborated to offer this exciting bursary opportunity for an established artist to learn to dive
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30 June 2020BTO/SWLA Flightlines Project 2016 – Funnel
Harriet Mead's sculpture 'Funnel', based on her observations of a cuckoo chick and reed warbler in Norfolk
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30 June 2020BTO/SWLA Flightlines Project 2015 – Norfolk
Three SWLA member artists: Esther Tyson, Harriet Mead and Carey Ackroyd, joined volunteer bird ringers and nest recorders involved in project work on some of the migrant birds using Breckland, a region of dry, sandy soils which spans an area of just over 1,000 square kilometres across the western end of Norfolk and Suffolk.
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1 July 2020BTO/SWLA Flightlines 2015 – Italy
BTO/SWLA Flight Lines Project – Italy Satellite tracking by BTO researchers has confirmed that the River Po watershed in Italy is an important ‘stop-over’ site for British Cuckoos on their autumn migration to Africa. During summer 2015, SWLA member artist Federico Gemma accompanied BTO Senior Research Ecologist Chris Hewson to the watershed, where they visited sites at which British Cuckoos had stopped this year.
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30 June 2020BTO/SWLA Flightlines Project 2014 – Senegal
In January 2014, a team of four SWLA artists accompanied the BTO's Head of International Research on a trip to Senegal. By bringing artists and scientists together they set out to raise the profile around some of the issues facing our summer migrants
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9 August 2019Aig an Oir – At the Edge, 2004 to 2005
Details of the SWLA project exploring the UK's own rainforests – the Atlantic oakwoods of western Scotland.
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13 August 2020Drawn to the Forest 1999
Drawn to the Forest was a collaboration between the SWLA and Forestry Commission with the aim of capturing and recording the essence of the New Forest as a celebration of its unique character as the new millennium dawned.