‘One Island – Many Visions’ was a curated exhibition of Portlands landscape legacy with symposium and programme of workshop /events developed over 18 months in partnership with 27 artists from the Royal Society of Sculptors and Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust.
The exhibition ran from 06 September to 31 October 2025 and included a two day Symposium Sat 27 / Sun 28 September, focusing on environment and art.
‘Early Morning Wren’ – a collaboration between glassmaker Colin Reid and Rob Godman (UH Music) with acoustic consultation by Rob Phillips (UH Music)
The glass sculpture ‘Early Morning Wren’ combines textures cast from Tout Quarry rocks with an image derived from an audio recording at dawn in the quarry. A sound, a single visual representation of the location – the call of a wren – is captured as a sonogram and transferred to glass, reflecting the ancient permanence of the rocks and the fleeting nature of lives lived there. The accompanying soundscape, uses the same location and source – the bird call representing transience in a place that is rooted in geological time, reflecting changes to the Anthropocene. Frozen in time, the wren sonogram allows us to explore the sound ‘out of time’, with the soundscape distorting our perception of pace and rhythm as it unfolds. Making use of sounds that may have been present in the quarry throughout history, we hear echoes of the past entwining human and naturally occurring phenomena.
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