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Join artist-academic Dr Julia Heslop and naturalist Sam Freeman as they discuss their project on the forgotten edgelands of North Tyneside
In this 'Nature's Cure' evening event at Great North Museum:Hancock, artist Julia Heslop and naturalist Sam Fisher will present ‘This Was All Fields’ – a ten-year project seeking to record the wildlife, ecology and landscape characteristics of the fields around the village of Murton, North Tyneside, where 2,700 houses are planned to be built. Drawing together wildlife surveys, community mapping, art and placemaking, Julia and Sam's project seeks to record the landscape of Murton before, during and after housing development.
In this talk, Julia and Sam will discuss the outcomes from the first phase of the project, highlighting the relationships between housing development and biodiversity and landscape change - through the results of bird surveys, interviews with local residents, and artistic outputs.
Julia Heslop is an artist and research fellow at Newcastle University working in installation, painting, printmaking and video. Her work looks at issues of landscape change exploring the ecological impacts of development, land histories, land and property ownership, housing precarity, urban planning and local democracy. She often works in participatory, slow ways with groups and communities on long-term projects.Sam Fisher is a local naturalist who lives by the coast in West Monkseaton, North Tyneside. He spends his free time watching wildlife locally and in Northumberland.You can follow him on Instagram at @sjf_80.