One and All: A voyage through sight, sound & sea
Charming exhibition at Somerset House marking 50 years of the National Trust’s programme to care for the coast line. The work was an installation by four artists Tania Kovats (visual arts), Owen Sheers (poetry), Martyn Ware (sound and music) and Benjamin Wigley (film maker). The first room has a large display of Wigley’s film of the coastal landscapes cared for by the trust and is a very soothing place to sit and reflect on the work. My favourite room had the names of all the harbours and headlands of the UK with a new bell in the middle of the room by Tania Kovats cast at the autumn equinox on close to Land’s End which was being rung at high tide on the Thames throughout the show. It was a nice touch to publish the whole of Sheers poem about the Gower Peninsula in full in the small booklet that was being given out. Closes 13 December 2015.