
A weekend of Coastal Commissions
in Morecambe Bay
Presented by
Deco Publique and theCOLAB
21 - 23 March, 2025
The Morecambe Bay Coastal Commissioning Programme is being imaginatively and collectively evolved as a collaboration between Deco Publique and theCOLAB, the programme seeks to reimagine coastal art experiences through participatory projects, public installations, and performance. These commissions mark the beginning of a long-term programme that will bring artists and communities together to explore the unique coastal landscapes of Morecambe Bay.
Friday 21 March | Daisy Collingridge, WALKING WITH CLIVE, 5.30pm RSVP
Friday 21 March | Elizabeth Clough, HARBINGER, Opening Celebration 6–8pm
Saturday 22- Sunday 23 March | Elizabeth Clough, HARBINGER, Exhibition Dates 11am–4pm
Sunday 23 March | BODY and PLACE with Martin Morris (Invite only)
Daisy Collingridge, WALKING WITH CLIVE
At the core of Daisy Collingridge’s practice is an exploration and celebration of the human form, working across sculpture, photography and performance, she delves into its anatomical properties with quilted flesh and limbs, harnessing a tactile and haptic quality of softness and colour. Growing up in a medical family, the body and its workings were considered matter of fact, In the hands of Collingridge, they became matter of fiction and imagination as she became fascinated with giving form to what lies inside.
For the first time, the artist is releasing her wearable sculptures from the domestic settings where she creates photographic portraits of them alone or in groups. Empowered by their exaggerated, genderless fleshiness, they will take to the coastline of Morecambe Bay as part of Deco Publique and theCOLAB’s Coastal Commissioning Programme. Collingridge took her BA in Fashion Design from Central St Martin’s College of Art in 2014 and was the Sarabande Foundation Artist in Residence from 2020 – 22. She has exhibited widely including at TJ Boulting, British Textile Biennial and internationally at Textiel Museum, Tilberg, Netherlands, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, USA.
Elizabeth Clough, HARBINGER
Barrow-born and Morecambe-based Elizabeth Clough invites you to the first showing of her year-long project in creative collaboration Deco Publique, theCOLAB and Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts.
A lament for birdsong, HARBINGER invites audiences to listen deeply to the present and the absent.
“Bringing together sound, sculpture and drawing for the first time in my practice, the show explores my love and respect for birds and their song, alongside my grief and anger around the decline in their populations and factors driving them. We live our lives among the birds and we experience them every time we are outside. We share our food and our environments. We are intertwined. What happens to the birds is happening to us.” Elizabeth Clough
Taking place as part of the Coastal Commissions development, is a collaborative research project with academics and researchers at Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts. This year-long project, supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council will feature three artistic commissions in 2025. The first sees Elizabeth Clough bring together her work in sculpture, sound and drawing for the first time. The second commission will be promoted through an open call launching in April 2025.
BODY and PLACE on tour in Morecambe Bay
BODY and PLACE is an exploratory workshop established by theCOLAB in 2019 as a way to rethink the life room and provide an opportunity for artists to draw the body in the context of the landscape. This is the first time that BODY and PLACE has gone on tour and the first time that the life model will be in sculptural form. The workshops are purely exploratory and examine the process of drawing and what it can unleash. They are led by Martin Morris, renowned as an innovative and effective educator in the field of drawing.
His practice and research focuses on drawing and pedagogy through drawing, exploring its utility as a way of as a way of developing creative insight within educational and creative industries. Twelve artists working across different disciplines in the region and nationally have been invited to attend the workshops which will feature Daisy Collingridge’s CLIVE.
The research phase was generously funded by Arts Council England, Lancaster City Council and South Lakeland District Council, with an important research trip to Japan funded by Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation