Partner Organisations: Creative Youth Opportunities, North East Photography Network, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland Culture: Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Creative Practitioners: Dawn Felicia Knox, Tracy Thomas, Jo Howell
Co/Lab Curator: Dr Suzy O’Hara
Documentation: Colin Davison (photography), Alan Fentiman (videography), Lottie Steele (audio)
Sea Change Lab
Sea Change Lab is a series of creative workshops run by three different artists: Dawn Felicia Knox, Tracy Thomas, and Jo Howell. Sea Change Lab explored questions around personal connection to the coast with young people from Horden through sessions focused on visualising and looking in different ways using lo-fi, sustainable photographic techniques.
Sea Change Lab, Podcast
Sea Change Lab brought together young people living in the coastal town of Horden, County Durham, and north-east based artists Jo Howell, Dawn Felicia Knox and Tracy Thomas.
Throughout May and June 2022, the group experimented with sustainable, low-cost filmmaking and animation, portraiture, analogue photographic printing techniques and zine-making to explore the question: How do we care for our coast?
The creative artworks that emerged from Sea Change Lab went on to be part of the Island exhibition at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in September 2022.
Here the creative practitioners talk about the project and its outcomes.
Co/Labbers