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Morokoth Fournier Des Corats

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Read below about their exciting plans for vivid new outdoor art works in this 2020 festival exploring H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. Sited in the fantastic outdoor spaces in St Leonards on Sea, these are free experiences available to view 24/7 throughout the festival.

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Lead outdoor artist, Emma Harding heads up a super-skilled dynamic team this year. She is running her own project in conjunction with vibrant local after school art programmes at Christ Church C of E Primary Academy and St Pauls Church of England Academy School with willow weaver Julie Gurr. Sited in Gensing Gardens, Perfect Conquest will comprise an installation of young people's testimonies in clay, exploring experiences of challenge and struggle and the strengths gained from them, inspired by Wells' protagonist. "We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence."

Illustrator Peter Quinnell is, like Emma, an original artist on the team who developed the outdoor art at the inception of the festival. This year he will work with Black Winkle young artists on Dials, Counters, Clockfaces, a garden intervention of two and three dimensional work which could become four dimensional if the secrets of time travel are discovered. Head to Warrior Square Gardens this year to explore the face of devices that log one of the most difficult aspects of life to control: time. How do the aesthetics of the dial and the clock face impact the activities they assist us with? Get playful with visual counting mechanisms to see what aspect of life we could experience very differently if a counter was attached. "One dial records days, another thousands of days, another millions of days and another thousands of millions."

Conceptual artist and water colourist Susan Miller, in partnership with Southeastern Rail, is designing a vibrant multi media intervention on the station path and in the ticket office this year at St Leonards Warrior Square Station. Variously constructed as a fourth dimension and a period of a week between two visits to the Time Traveller's house, time takes many guises in Wells' novella. Miller ventures beyond what time means to Wells in her project "I Intend to Explore Time", exploring what time might potentially offer us.
"I was in my laboratory at four o'clock and since then I have lived eight days...such days as no human being has lived before!"

Strange Fossils in 807,701 is visual artist Morokoth Fournier des Corats first outdoor art project for the festival, an exciting mixed media intervention planned for Gensing Gardens. Wells' views the landscape in the year 807,701. "The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted, perhaps, a mile from its present position". Writing before the invention of plastic, Wells could not have imagined the current anxieties over plastic litter and its future impact on the environment, on land and sea. Morokoth is an illustrator who values aspects of landscape as treasures in her work. in this piece she considers the beautiful landscape of the site, laid out as a Victorian Park reflecting Wells' descriptions of abundant vegetation and exploring plastic waste forecasts. Her imaginations of fossilised plastic will aim to capture the complicated relationships we have with materials that pose a future hazard but which enhance contemporary existence.

Arts facilitator, Dawn Dublin also joins the team this year with A Line along the Time Dimension. Dawn is gearing up to consider the Time Traveller's musings of portraits on a time line. "For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty three and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, three-dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed an unalterable thing." What will she and members of the community discover about this exploration of self in time?

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An exciting addition to this year's plans is an ambitious coastal work offered by international artist, Jill Rock. Situated on Lower Promenade, adjacent to another separately funded festival project by the Zoom Arts collective, Time and Tide will offer a stunning insight to the community's response to Wells' words and bring people together on the south coast shore. This project is funded by #NationalLottery25. More news on funding for this project coming soon!

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