Find.ers.Keep.ers
A series of performative acts and visual artwork
Essex, Hertfordshire and Mid-Wales - 2021/22
Supported by (Arts) Territory Exchange
Find.ers.Keep.ers sheds light on the threat of bridleways becoming extinguished in the UK.
During the first lockdown of the Covid crisis, SLQS walked, ran and mapped these unrecorded lanes in Essex, Hertfordshire and Mid-Wales. This work questions ideas around rights to roam, land rights and diversity in the equestrian world. As a Franco-Vietnamese artist and rider living in East London, she immersed herself in the British countryside, changing the colour of its landscape and challenging the representation of horse riders in the UK.
The documentation of these performative acts - photos, videos, maps, memories and personal reflections - becomes material for the creation of visual artwork.
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Exhibited in:
Un-Boxing, a travelling exhibition in a box and moving across continents by (Arts) Territory Exchange. The work has been shown in Cambridgeshire with Gudrun Filipska, Plas Bodfa in Anglesea North Wales, Chateau de Mareuil and La Vieille Closerie in Aquitaine France and is currently at Street Road Artist Space in Pennsylvania USA.
I was inspired by a story I was told by a female bridleway office in Mid-Wales where 80 women responded to the Welsh Active Travel Consultation. Their responses were collated as one and counted as one voice. This work attempts to correct this act of misogyny.