‘The Imaginarium of Common Understanding’ (2015)
Long Sutton Common Pit, Lincolnshire
The installation offers a series of sculptures that encourage an engagement with the history and geographical context of Long Sutton Common Pit, Lincolnshire. Utilising the idea that an ‘Imaginarium’ is a place devoted to the imagination, or a space of stimulation and cultivation, the artwork includes an interpretation sign, bird boxes and an insect hotel.
The installation is intended to provide an environment that enhances the ecology of the site in general whilst providing a ‘hotel/home’ for lacewing larvae (that feed on pests and aphids), solitary bees (mason bee), pollinators (bees & solitary wasps), hover flies & other hymenoptera (hymenoptera are one of the largest orders of insects, comprising of sawflies, wasps, bees and ants) alongside overwintering ladybirds.
Long Sutton is an ‘Edge-land’ historically defined by its relationship to The Wash, the largest estuarine system in the UK
‘The shoreline is sensitive to glacial intervention; during the Anglian glacial period for example (about 300,000 to 250,000 years ago) the entire area was overwhelmed by a vast ice-sheet hundreds of metres in depth.
Presently the rate of sea-level rise is expected to increase substantially due to global climate change & the Government has asked flood defence authorities to plan for an average sea-level rise of 6 mm per year to 2030.’ (The Wash - Natural England Profile)
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The project was commissioned by TRANSPORTED
and funded by a ‘Creative People and Places’ / Arts Council England grant
Co-fabrication: G&T Project Management
Sign Manufacture: FASTSIGNS, Peterborough
