As Lead Artist, I worked with South Norfolk District Council to select artists, shape the project, and liaise between artists and funders, and later reported back to an Exit Conference.
I helped to select three artists who, along with myself, were to make temporary installations at four riverside sites and to keep web diaries. I worked at each site, making a vessel from local materials and inviting visitors to write wishes or prayers on found leaves to put into the vessel, which would eventually be sent out to sea. In return each contributor received a fish with the address of the web diary. Each riverside site was further downriver, and finally I travelled on down to the sea with all four vessels, took them out to sea and put them into the water. I also kept a web diary with photos and details of the journey and the wishes, so that contributors could follow the journey to its end.
- Loddon Staithe Vessel by Liz McGowan




Photo by Linda Gordon



Photo by Martha Winter

Wave of reed made by all four artists at Reedham Ferry
Unless otherwise stated, all photos by Liz McGowan