Watercourse Way is an Arts Council England funded Salt Road project, inviting artists and workshop participants to evoke and embody watery bodies; the bottom of the sea, the banks of a river, seaweed, algae, fish, insects, birds, polluted or stagnant water, rising sea levels, oil spills, ice, glaciers, lakes, ponds, streams, bogs, canals, glaciers, islands, or human and animal bodies, which are 60% water. Click here for the project blog

Watercourse Way is a Salt Road artist-led program that responds to the climate and ecological crisis, creatively exploring water and its edges. Here, water is related to as an open and rippling subject matter, encompassing global bodies of water (rivers, oceans, canals, lakes, ponds, glaciers, waterfalls, streams), human and animal activities in water (bathing, drinking, swimming, washing, paddling, floating, sinking), water as a symbol for the poetic or deep mind (conscious, unconscious, subconscious), water as an opportunity for total submergence, for opening, closing, cooling, heating, freezing, melting, rippling, dripping, thundering, roaring, evaporating, threading, shifting, flowing, or stagnating…

The artistic approach is intrinsically watery; the artist embodying the wisdom of water and flow as a state of being. Taking the idea that we are nature, this project dwells within vast fields of reference; combining climate science and myth; exploring the co-production of knowledge and the fluid intersections of art and science. Click here for the project blog