Anne Waggot Knott, From the Ground Up

This September, artist Anne Waggot Knott is holding a pair of workshops on the banks of the River Tweed near St Boswells.

Each workshop offers participants opportunities to co-create their own small-scale, temporary follies made from natural materials, accompanied by informal, imaginative discussion and visioning.

These workshops are part of From the Ground Up, Anne's ongoing project with Connecting Threads. Over the summer months, Anne has been working slowly by the riverside, swimming, walking, filming, and building using deadwood and grasses.

By constructing miniature buildings from natural materials and placing them covertly in the environment, she is examining the implications of asserting rights or ownership over parts of the river, its surroundings, and its inputs and outputs.

All welcome: no previous experience of ‘structure’ building is necessary!

Access

Please meet at Benrig Cemetery

There are steep steps by the river bank

Food and drink

Light packed lunch and herbal teas will be available.

Please bring your own drinking water.

"What is rural hydrocitizenship? What does it mean not just to be on or near the water, but to really scrutinise how we interact with this stretch of the river?"

Read more from Anne Waggot Knott on the thinking behind From the Ground Up.

About the artist
A visual artist, geographer and creative consultant, Anne Waggot Knott focuses on human-environment interaction. She seeks critical points of disconnection – from our surroundings and from each other – and helps us reconnect and move forward. Her work encourages experiential re-evaluation of our place in the world through installation, printmaking, sculpture, conversation, creative writing, and digital media.
https://annewaggotknott.com
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