Lost Words for Rye Harbour Art Exhibition
Throughout the month of August, award-winning wildlife artists and makers will be showing their work at the Discovery Centre at Rye Harbour nature reserve. Contributors include well-loved local print makers Annie Soudain and Robert Greenhalf, along with painters, photographers, ceramicists and textile artists.
The Lost Words for Rye Harbour show features wildlife found on the reserve that is highlighted in Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris’ well-known books and CDs. The Lost Words came about when some children’s dictionaries removed words such as swallow, egret, cormorant and acorn because they no longer considered them relevant to children. In response Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane produced a book of stunning paintings and poems to re-engage both children and adults with the natural world and to keep nature vocabulary in use.
Over the last seven months the Sussex Wildlife Trust’s Lost Words for Rye Harbour Project, made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, has provided nature writing workshops, children’s poetry and mask-making workshops, a sound recording and mapping day for teenagers and a treasure hunt for families.
“All of these events are focused on helping people connect with nature,” project leader S Morgan told us. “We want to get people talking about nature, looking at nature and having a personal engagement with nature. This free exhibition is an opportunity to see extraordinary work by local artists inspired by species found here at Rye Harbour.”
The exhibition will be on the Art Wall at Rye harbour Discovery Centre from 1st August to mid September. The centre is open every day from 10 am and it closes at 4pm.