Coast Encounters : Cromer and Sheringham Arts Festival : October, 2010
Offerings to the good swell
The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art’s outreach project, The Culture of the Countryside, celebrated the drama of the coast with a series of art interventions. Mark was in residence at the Old Brick Works, West Runton during the festival where he made a series of artworks that responded to the site and stories collected from the east coast surfing community. Offerings to the good swell was a shrine in a disused pig sty where people brought precious things collect from the beach and lit candles
Surfs up -
Note book
A large sheet of paper recorded visitors comments. Mark painted a huge 'barreling' wave, placing a table top on a child’s swimming ring. Visitors then rode the wave inside the lip of the 'monster tube'.
Comments, poems and drawings were left by visitors to the pigsty escaping from the howling westerly winds. 'Offering to the good swell' became a place of pilgrimage and quite reflection.