From Tarmac to Towpath

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>From Tarmac to Towpath:</span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Excursions into Lockdown</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is a collection of works created on the streets of London Lancashire Cumbria Newcastle Glasgow and the Firth of Forth when the UK was in Lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Featuring text and images from 13 artists across the UK a</span><span style=color: rgba(6 15 41 1)> document of traces emerges formed of spectral walks psychogeographical encounters eerie geometries deserted towpaths former railway lines discarded masks ghostly enclaves and sudden verdures. While boundaries dissolve everything is muffled and haunted desperate for re-connection. Dust rust and peeling paint triggers acknowledgement of hyperawareness. Stunned side streets and somnolent houses (evoked by Graham Greene as </span><em style=color: rgba(6 15 41 1)>'the unfamiliar shadows of half-things broken things former things'</em><span style=color: rgba(6 15 41 1)>) are amongst many captured moments that remind us of the unprecedented emotions and events of life in lockdown.</span></p>