Artists Announced for Tide Mills Project

There is an exciting range of creatives involved with The Tide Mills project, which will culminate with a celebratory week: 20th – 26th September. We will share more news about musicians and soundscape artists who will take part over coming months. Here are the visual artists onboard.

Art Lewry and Jack Beccegato of Hunter Gatherer and a local Seaford drone pilot, Gary Bruggenwirth, are mapping the whole site in high-definition 3-D. Art and Jack are creating a VR/AR landscape for visitors to explore both on-site and remotely, overlaying stories, historical buildings and artefacts on the current landscape. Christian Funnell, the artist behind Seaford’s Shoal community seating project, is creating a giant metal water wheel, situated at the sluice for the original mill, powered by the sparse tidal flow that remains. Representations of flora and fauna connected to the past and present of the site by local children will be included in the piece. Christian will also collaborate with a sound artist reconstructing beds at the Chailey Marine Hospital site. They will work with local residents, and the music department at Chailey Heritage, to create soundscapes which will be heard when the listener’s skull makes contact with the metal of the installation.

International artist Guyan Porter is creating a light installation representing the mill pond filling and then emptying. He will also run a live radio station from the Seaplane Station, with the local community. Hal Wheeler will be using LED pixel mapping alongside other lighting effects to create the illusion of movement on a scaffolding structure at the site of the Mill. Seaford-based Filmspot is creating ghost-like animations of characters from Tide Mill’s past, and will run open workshops creating flipbooks of the area’s present residents. These will be shown on screens at the redundant Tide Mills station. Animator Abbie Stanton is constructing a giant zoetrope, focusing on David Dale’s stables and horses. Abbie will make, through community willow weaving workshops, 20 horses and other animals, to create the animated illusion when the rotating zoetrope turns. Illustrator Rachel Cunningham and Scenic Artist Romy Loughton are recreating the stationmaster’s cottage as a theatre set. Local school children will help recreate the textures of the cottage. During the celebratory week, the piece will be brought to life by performers as historical characters, welcoming visitors to the site.

Kittie Kipper, from Seaford, is a fibre artist and weaver using foraged plastic materials, primarily ghost nets, to encourage makers and creatives of all ages to use materials that are already in existence as discarded waste. She will be working with local children to create fibre circles that will be woven together onsite during the celebratory week. Ellie Johnson-Bullock and Sam Ford, artists based in Denton, are inspired by the food that would have been produced within Tide Mills. They will run a pop-up bakery where the public will be invited to make and break bread together, and a giant pineapple-inspired piece, located at the site of the original pineapple pit. The Tide Mills Project, devised and delivered by LYT Productions, is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Arts Council England and the South Downs National Park. Visit the Tide Mills Project website by scanning the QR code, or at www.tidemillsproject.uk to find out more, join the mailing list and get involved.

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