Art In The Landscape

The ‘Art in the Landscape' initiative produced four artworks within the Biosphere Reserve that demonstrate what can be achieved and what is possible when the arts are used as a tool within the context of rural regeneration.

Moth Black - situated at Slade Reservoir near Ilfracombe, artist Phil Power has created a kissing gate, style and stone wall constructed seating area on the site of a newly created permissive path. Solar powered lights animate your journey as you climb the path to the higher reservoir and trees have been planted to delineate your route.  Grid Ref SS415452.

Waymarkers - This series of LED display waymarkers sit proudly along a section of the Tarka Trail cycleway running in to Braunton. Artist Kirsty Waterworth worked with young people from Braunton Community College and Youth Club to create these steel columns advertsing running text written by the young people on the LED displays in each one. The text takes you on a narrative as well as physical journey. Grid Ref SS487363.

Viewing places - created at  Velator Wetland, this project is about people, access and understanding. The artist and architect team, San Facon worked with the Biosphere Reserve and Environment Agency who own that site that until this project had been closed to the public, to make three very distinct viewing places and spaces. The local secondary and primary schools were both been involved in developing the places around the wetland site and a teacher's resource pack has been produced. Grid Ref SS485355.

Westward Ho! Sound Bench - artist Simon Heath, inspired by workshops with residents in the village, created this special bench on the South West Coast Path. It looks like any other bench but sit on it, and you trigger a random playback of recorded sounds inspired by the village. From poems, to the bingo caller at the arcades, the 200 sounds you hear were recorded exclusively in the village and at a weekend recording event on the seafront. This installation has now been removed.

A publication documenting the pilot projects is available from North Devon AONB and Biosphere Service, Bideford Station, East the Water, Bideford, Devon, EX39 4BB