Abstract
AHRC impact Acceleration account: place based call. The principal investigator on this project was Dr Zoe Latham with Dr Sally Sutton and Linda Ward as co-investigators. The moving image works and photographic works referenced below were made by Linda Ward.
A Portrait of Place: The River Dart Anglers is a collaborative research project undertaken with the Dart Angling Association. The project sought to give salience to the stories and situated knowledge of the anglers in order to reveal the various ways in which they connect to place in turn forming longstanding ecological relationships with the river. Dartmoor National Park visitor centre at Prince town is hosting an exhibition (spring - summer 2024) focusing on these stories, histories and memories and archival material from the Dart Angling Association. Through this exhibition University of Plymouth researcher’s Dr Zoe Latham, Dr Sally Sutton and Linda Ward and the DAA have sought to show why places matter to people and to articulate possibilities beyond the present to those who have the power to make change happen.
Part of the exhibition centre has a mini cinema space which is screening, A Portrait of Place: The River Dart Anglers (2023), a trilogy of meditative factual films (Digital, duration: 15: 32, looped) made by Linda Ward with DAA members Rod Lewis, Ian Scofield and Phil Prowse. The work gives voice to their connection to and concerns for the conservational of the natural environment and the fish populations of the River Dart. Ward made two other short films for the exhibition: DAA Archive (2023) looking at the DAA archive and its formation in the year 1895 (Digital, duration 2.01. Looped) and Bugs (2023) a snapshot of invertebrate monitoring conducted by Luke Chester- Master on the Dart (Digital, duration 1.48. Looped).
Ward recorded 6 research interviews and took photographic portraits of those interviewed for display in the wider photographic exhibition plus created a storyboard featuring angler Rob Dart (image used by DNP for Press release) and co- created with Latham, a story board showing the process of invertebrate monitoring carried out by Luke Chester-Master.
[5 moving image works 6 photographic portraits and 2 multiple image storyboards one of which was co-created with Latham]
A Portrait of Place: The River Dart Anglers is a collaborative research project undertaken with the Dart Angling Association. The project sought to give salience to the stories and situated knowledge of the anglers in order to reveal the various ways in which they connect to place in turn forming longstanding ecological relationships with the river. Dartmoor National Park visitor centre at Prince town is hosting an exhibition (spring - summer 2024) focusing on these stories, histories and memories and archival material from the Dart Angling Association. Through this exhibition University of Plymouth researcher’s Dr Zoe Latham, Dr Sally Sutton and Linda Ward and the DAA have sought to show why places matter to people and to articulate possibilities beyond the present to those who have the power to make change happen.
Part of the exhibition centre has a mini cinema space which is screening, A Portrait of Place: The River Dart Anglers (2023), a trilogy of meditative factual films (Digital, duration: 15: 32, looped) made by Linda Ward with DAA members Rod Lewis, Ian Scofield and Phil Prowse. The work gives voice to their connection to and concerns for the conservational of the natural environment and the fish populations of the River Dart. Ward made two other short films for the exhibition: DAA Archive (2023) looking at the DAA archive and its formation in the year 1895 (Digital, duration 2.01. Looped) and Bugs (2023) a snapshot of invertebrate monitoring conducted by Luke Chester- Master on the Dart (Digital, duration 1.48. Looped).
Ward recorded 6 research interviews and took photographic portraits of those interviewed for display in the wider photographic exhibition plus created a storyboard featuring angler Rob Dart (image used by DNP for Press release) and co- created with Latham, a story board showing the process of invertebrate monitoring carried out by Luke Chester-Master.
[5 moving image works 6 photographic portraits and 2 multiple image storyboards one of which was co-created with Latham]
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 20 Mar 2024 |
| Event | A Portrait of Place: The River Dart Anglers - Dartmoor Visitors Centre, Princetown, United Kingdom Duration: 20 Mar 2024 → 24 Apr 2024 |