Collaborations with artist Jane Frost: ‘Salt Trails’ and ‘Mapping the Wind’
In 2009 Jane and I offered a series of walking conversations for the exhibition at Salthouse Church curated by Simon Martin with the theme of salt. We wanted to create work through relationship with place and people. So we offered a series of highly flexible walking dialogues arising out of the encroachment of the salt sea on the coastline at Salthouse.
feet on the land
salt sea encroaching
transient activity
tracing paths
shingle bank regrading
making connections
The conversations were grounded in an active relationship with the landscape, in the activities of walking and ephemeral art, and alive to the environmental effects of the source, process and use of materials.
Each walk began and ended at Salthouse Church. We invited walkers to bring back to the church a small object that would symbolise what they might be taking away with them from the experience of the day.
All photographs by Tim Frost
Mapping the Wind
In a second project, part of the Cromer and Sheringham Festival and funded by the Sainsbury Centre’s Culture of the Countryside Programme, we set up a wind diary in the shelter at West Runton which was used by hundreds of people of all ages to record personal experiences of the wind through writing, drawing, poetry and sketching. We also organised a WindArt day, a Wind Walk, and a Wind Mapping Day. Details and photographs can be seen at
Photographs by Liz McGowan
Liz McGowan 