Fitties: Image, Text, Memory in
Place
Photographs by
Annabel McCourt, Texts by Harriet Tarlo, Paintings by Judith Tucker.
The Humberston
Fitties is a century old colony of about 300 chalets, huts and cabins on former
salt marsh (fitties) on the Lincolnshire coast south of Cleethorpes. This exhibition is inspired by this
particular and unique location, as well as by memories of those who have stayed
on the Fitties over the years. The
exhibition emerges from Project Fitties, a collaboration between these three
artists to realise a cross-disciplinary project. The artists invited people to contribute
postcards of their memories and also conducted interviews in order to deepen
their picture of the Fitties past and present.
Some of the images
and texts show the Fitties in the context of the esturial marsh and beach land
surrounding the site, while other, more intimate pohotographs, paintings and
poems evoke the past and present, exteriors and half-hidden interiors of the
holiday chalets and the relationship between people and place. In the ground floor exhibition space (part of
the Discovery Centre cafe) are large-scale striking paintings, open form poems
and a series of black and white photographs entitled The Closed Season. Upstairs,
the artists get closer to the people of the Fitties. There is a large memory map occupying the
whole of one wall with personal memories written on postcards, intimate
paintings of individual dwellings, portraits photographs and found texts created from the names of chalets and from spoken and
written words by individual.
This is a part of my
local area to which I am continually attracted for walking, bird watching and
photography. I found this exhibition
particularly evocative and was inspired by the juxtaposition of text and image.
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