Notes From The Field

About Notes From The Field

Cement Fields is a visual art organisation working collaboratively with artists and communities to create ambitious new art along the Thames Estuary in North Kent.

Publisher

Cement Fields

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Jan 2024

Latest episode

5 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 Feb 2026

   Notes From The Field 003: RESOLVE Collective

   Welcome to the third episode of Notes From The Field, a Cement Fields podcast where we talk to artists, practitioners and researchers to dig deeper into our projects and the people behind them. In 003 we look at Ebbsfleet Design Group and the work they did with interdisciplinary design collective RESOLVE and researcher Rana Khazbak for the 24/25 year of the programme. Ebbsfleet Design Group builds on our pioneering three-year creative placemaking programme This Must Be The Place to continue our work collaborating with local young people on the development of the new Ebbsfleet Garden City, supported by artists, academics and designers. Rana and RESOLVE led a series of explorative and hands-on workshops with young people aged 15-21 living in or near Ebbsfleet, asking them to consider creative and novel ways of responding to their environment, and facilitated them becoming ‘community researchers’ – working to re-imagine the built environment as it’s being developed in Ebbsfleet. The Design Group met over the course of three ‘labs’ in the October half term, the February half term, and April Easter holidays, when this podcast was recorded. Thanks to Seth and Lauren-Loïs for their insight and a brilliant chat! Find out more about Ebbsfleet Design Group here ---> https://cementfields.org/projects/ebbsfleet-design-group/

2. 

   22 Jul 2025

   Notes From The Field 002: Ivan Morison

   Welcome to the second episode of Notes From The Field, a Cement Fields podcast where we talk to artists, practitioners and researchers to dig deeper into our projects and the people behind them. Our guest for this second episode of Notes From The Field is Sea Like a Mirror lead artist Ivan Morison. Sea Like a Mirror is an ambitious national partnership programme, commissioned to mark the 200th anniversary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, inspired by the profound legacy of their life-saving work. At the heart of the programme is a newly commissioned artwork, White Horses, by Ivan Morison, from the collaborative practice of Heather Peak and Ivan Morison. Produced through a series of visits to lifeboat stations in six diverse seaside towns around the coastline, this travelling 16mm film work, housed in a sculptural tent, explores the myriad roles the sea plays for those who hold a deep connection to the water. Across May and June this year, White Horses returned to these locations, and in each setting was presented alongside a series of commissions from local artists, made in collaboration with the area’s community, making up the Sea Like a Mirror programme. Ivan Morison has established an ambitious practice that transcends the divisions between art, architecture, theatre and social practice; questioning what it means to be an artist in the 21st Century. His primary preoccupation has always been how we navigate catastrophe and the violence of change – from the wider collective view down to how individuals deal with moments of personal calamity. Alongside Heather Peak, he is co-director of artist-led creative practice Studio Morison, whose work centres around spaces of human coexistence and the communities that occupy or may gather there. They categorise their work as a situated practice constructed from layers of social sculpture and sculptural space. Sea Like a Mirror is a partnership project led by Cement Fields, with Art Gene, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, North East Lincolnshire Council & East Marsh United, and Super Culture. With thanks to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Supported with public funding from Arts Council England. Presented in Gravesend for Estuary 2025 with Estuary Festival. Thank you for listening.

3. 

   11 Dec 2024

   Notes From The Field 001: Wetland

   Floating University Berlin team members discuss the Wetland project, a Cultural Bridge-funded exchange program, and their shared practices of community engagement within former industrial locations; this is an interview.

4. 

   4 Apr 2024

   SONIC COMMONS #3

   Artist Rob Shuttleworth presents a soundscape composition featuring field recordings and readings from the Thames Estuary, exploring the sonic and textual landscape of North Kent in this episode.

5. 

   29 Feb 2024

   SONIC COMMONS #2

   Artist Rob Shuttleworth presents a soundscape composition featuring field recordings and readings from the Thames Estuary, exploring the poetic landscape of North Kent in collaboration with FIELDNOTES.

6. 

   31 Jan 2024

   SONIC COMMONS #1

   Artist Rob Shuttleworth creates a sonic landscape from field recordings and readings along the Thames Estuary, featuring voices of collaborators and texts referencing North Kent.

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