River Parrett (re)visited
River Parrett (re)visited by Lead Artist Simon Lee Dicker. His role as lead artist has been a combination of looking at the existing art on the trail, generating ideas for how art along the Parrett can be developed, encouraging local involvement through creative workshops and making work in response to his experience of the River trail. His starting point was to walk the trail armed with a sketchbook a pen and a handheld GPS. These tools combined enabled him to explore the trail and accurately record points of interest at specific locations.
The art-pack contains drawing equipment, a handheld GPS and a specifically designed workshop booklet with guidance notes that encourage a self initiated exploration of the Parrett. The aim is to visit a location along the Parrett, record the co-ordinates and complete the tasks. The tasks will encourage a re-visioning of the environment through specifically directed questions that demand a creative response in the form of writing and drawing. When the art-pack booklet is returned the Internet based drawing relating to the co-ordinates the participants have discovered will be activated alongside their creative response to the area.
We designed the accompanying Parrett Trail (re)visited booklet, website and traveling exhibition.
www.riverparrettrevisited.org.uk
