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The first Edge Land exhibition is at:

The Long Shop Museum
15 Main St, Leiston IP16 4ES
Saturday 5 Sept – Sunday 1 Nov 2026

Open daily: Tues to Sat 10am–5pm and Sunday 11am–3pm
(The exhibition is free but requires museum entry fee)

Please join us at the opening event – all welcome:
Saturday 5 Sept, 2–5pm
(Free entry to Long Shop museum for the opening event.)

Meet the artists, writers, poets, photographers, and performers in this two-year, multi-disciplinary arts project.

Amy Marie Gladding
Andrew Smith
Angus Stewart
Bryony Graham
Caroline Poole
Caroline Wright
Elizabeth Ferretti
Gus Farnes
Jennifer Hall
Jude Lockie
Julie Garton
Juliet Lockhart
Kristina Tonev
Lizzi Thistlethwayte
Margaret Wyllie
Mary Wyatt
Paul Morris
Richard Allenby-Pratt
Rosie Andersen
Veronica Worrall
Victoria Proctor

Workshops during the show:

Seeing The Landscape (Writing)
10am–1pm, Sat 19 Sept – £6.00

Place And Change (Writing)
10:30am–2:30pm, Sat 3 Oct – £6.00

Writing From The Edge (Writing)
10:30am–2:30pm, Sat 17 Oct – £6.00

Once Upon A Picture (Writing)
10am–1pm, Sat 24 Oct – £6.00

Celebrating Our Trees (Art)
10am–4pm, Fri 30 Oct – Free
Children’s drop-in art workshop

Reading Event
5–6pm, Sat 31 Oct – Free
With Edge Land writers plus workshop participants

All workshops are at the Long Shop and include free entry to the museum.

For details of the workshops and booking use the link in our bio or go to:
www.edge-land.co.uk

Workshops funded by Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape Sustainable Development Fund. Thank you to our host The Long Shop Museum. Edge Land website funded by The Arts Society, South East Suffolk

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#edge__land taken in Leiston by @edge__land

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“The Suffolk coast is among the most dynamic in the UK. Its ceaseless rhythms of growth and retreat, daily tides and seasonal storms, rupture the stories we tell ourselves about permanence and our place in the world.” Elizabeth Ferretti (@elizabethdferretti )

Edge Land exhibition open till 1st November in The Long Shop Museum, Leiston.

For more details @edge__land @longshopmuseum taken in Suffolk, England by @edge__land

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This post is part of @edge__land a two-year multi-disciplinary arts project and part of my own explorations into the historical, cultural, environmental and man-made changes on the Suffolk coast.

Living on the Edge - I began planning this book last year. Since then its design and content has changed and evolved considerably. Suffolk’s coastal landscape has always been shaped by the North Sea and its tides, with livelihoods and identity intrinsically tied to these. Lowestoft, in the north of the county has a long tradition of herring fishing going back to before the middle ages when herring was a food enjoyed by all, and even used as currency.

This artist’s book pays tribute to the women and girls, who came each year, primarily from Scotland and the Isles, following the herring fleets south to Lowestoft where they would work as gutters, preparing the fish to be sold on. They were the epitome of ‘living on the edge’.

By the 1960’s, due in part to over-fishing, Lowestoft’s herring trade had all but ended. For the Lowestoft community this decline was very significant causing a huge loss of identity and focus for the town and its inhabitants.

This book has a blue suede cover with foil blocking. it is hardbacked and constructed using a stab binding. The interior consists of pages of semi-transparent vellum paper and layered organza using photography and my own artwork. I wanted to capture through the transparent layering process, the ethereality of the sea with its waves and sea foam together with the haziness of memory, always looking through and into the next image. @edge__land

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EDGE LAND exhibition at The Long Shop Museum, Leiston, is open until 1st November.

Here are a few snippets of the show, which is located at The Garrett Room.

For more information go to @edge__land @longshopmuseum taken in The Long Shop Museum by @edge__land

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Here’s the little Redshank in colour, it was a bit tricky to keep the colours clean, but got there in the end. Colours are a mix of Permanent Red and Yellow Lake, Burnt Sienna and black and then a bit more black for the wooden post. #colours #redshank #birds #saltmarsh by @edge__land

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This is me having a go at Carborundum printmaking over a weekend at the Sudbourne Printmakers studios. Great fun, despite the subject matter of my print being very serious… fire at Dunwich National Trust this summer 2026. #carburundumprint #workshop #fire #dunwichheath @edge__land This is part of Edge Land a multi-disciplinary art project looking at man-made and natural change in Suffolk from Lowestoft down to Felixstowe, and from the A12 east out to sea. by @edge__land

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The Redshank is one of our beautiful wader birds found on saltmarshes and coastal wet grasslands. It is Amber listed because of loss of habitat, predators taking their eggs and climate change. The body of the bird is an etching and aquatint, and in the background is an impression of a textile pressed into soft ground and then etched in acid. Next step is to try and ink the plate up in colour and print it!#redshank #etching #birds #exhibition @edge__land
This post is part of Edge Land a multi-disciplinary art project looking at man-made and natural change in Suffolk, from Lowestoft down to Felixstowe, and from the A12 east out to sea. by @edge__land

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18 days ago

LAST FEW PLACES AVAILABLE FOR NEXT SATURDAY 3 OCTOBER – LINK IN BIO TO BOOK

What does it mean to write from the heart, to write from the mind? For me, it's the permission to express feelings, impressions, memories I've not given voice to. These could be stories of joy as well as more challenging ones – digging beyond the surface doesn't only mean shining a light into the dark. For example, working with the focus of change on the Edge Land project has challenged me to articulate thoughts and feelings, ideas that have been slow to mature. Over time they've coalesced into threads of insight.

Writing from the heart could be seen as a lofty aim. I see it as an honesty and a vulnerability that shines through our writing. The mind's role is to reorder these memories, impressions, emotions, interactions into narratives or poetry or script. And, by the way, there's good scientific evidence that turning thought into narrative results in health and psychological benefits.

What about place and change? These are our anchor points. Our relationship to place offers layers of internal mapping that include the physical place, our memories of it, its history, its geology, its plants, living beings... Place is how we understand ourselves. Change is time and story.

Our workshop next Saturday is a space to explore change and place in the setting of the wonderful Long Shop Museum. Our starting point is the Suffolk Coast, but you're not restricted in what you write about. What you write doesn't have to be 'important' either – an apparently simple memory tied to a place can be a portal to the unexpected. Above all, the workshops offer the chance to write in good company. In a time when our focus is pulled every which way, that is precious.

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#Coast&Heaths taken in The Long Shop Museum by @edge__land

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EDGE LAND WORKSHOP: PLACE AND CHANGE: WRITING FROM THE HEART AND MIND, SATURDAY 3 OCT IP16 4ES - with our wonderful hosts at the fabulous Long Shop Museum

In this workshop Vicky Proctor and I will be your guides as we explore the link between place and memory, and the connections between heart and mind and writing - such rich ingredients for the alchemy that is writing.

Whether you are writing memoir, fiction, poetry, non fiction or scriptwriting (Vicky will be your guide in that) - we hope this workshop will add to your writers' toolkit. And it is always fun to write in good company, isn't it.

There are a few tickets left for this event. The workshop is fully accessible, with accessible toilets and a steal at £6 per person - for which we have the wonderful Sustainable Development Fund of the Suffolk & Essex Coast & Heaths National Landscape to thank. And it could not be more appropriate as we explore our relationship with this beautiful coastal landscape.

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#longshopmuseum by @edge__land

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Edge Land’s first exhibition is on at the Long Shop Museum in Leiston until the end of October with opportunities to take part in some exciting workshops. I have 3 pieces on display - Artist’s books, ‘Industrialisation - Despoiling the Landscape’ and ‘Edge Land - in search of liminal spaces’ and ‘Fractured Edge Land’, Covehithe triptych.

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#mixedmediaart by @edge__land

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After crossing by ferry we stopped at the old bridge looking across to the Armoury, and the other 'Labs' where tests were carried out on the triggers, shell casings, and parts for nuclear weapons.
Crossing the Bailey bridge you are on
the ancient shingle bank between the
wild north sea, river and marshlands,
which stretches 10 miles along the east coast, connected by a thread to the north.
On the Ness, the horizon stretches 180 degrees, not like on 'dry land', where there are trees, hedges, and houses crowding out the sky, all the normal pointers are gone.
There's no other place like the Ness –
From mist, showers, to blinding sun,
the relentless winds howl around the rails
of the Bomb Ballistic,
from where you can see everything.
Lab time has stopped, rusted over.
Is this the past, a bygone era,
of mutually assured destruction,
or a landscape of a desolate future?

🎹 @haydennthorpe NESS by @edge__land

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If you're on the Suffolk coast this weekend, drop in to the amazing Long Shop Museum for a community writing event all about Suffolk.

Come and tell us your memories, your hopes, your thoughts about the changing face of the coast - and add to a community writing project as part of the on-going Edge Land exhibition.

This coast is full of stories. Come and tell us yours this Saturday 19 September at the Long Shop Museum in Leiston IP16 4ES between 10.00 and 13.00. My fellow Edge Land writer, Vicky Proctor, and I will be happy to see you.

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#LongShopMuseum taken in Suffolk, England by @edge__land

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