The Hidden Ecologies and Eels strand has produced a series of outputs which includes a prize-winning co-created animated film made by animator Lucy Izzard and children with the project teaming staff and children from Victoria Park Primary School Bristol. The lead artist in this strand was NOVA (lead Antony Lyons). The academic research team was Peter Coates (University of Bristol) and Dr. Katherine Jones (UWE). Helen Adshead worked as the community enabler. Special project partner was the Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) (thanks to Andrew Kerr, Chair of SEG).
A key output from this strand of the project was the animated film Protect the Eels. This won an award from the Sustainable Eels Group (SEG) which was presented at the Fishmongers Guild London in June 2017. It is an animated journey into the hidden ecologies of the River Avon as told by the children of Victoria Park Primary School, Bristol, using their drawings, ideas and voices. Funded by the AHRC's 'Towards Hydrocitizenship' project, and part of Water City Bristol, supported by the 'Sustainable Eel Group (SEG)'. In association with NOVA, lead artists for Water City Bristol. Film created by Pinch Me! Productions, directed by Lucy Izzard
PROTECT THE EELS from HYDROCITIZENSHIP on Vimeo.
The film was launched at Aardman Studios, Bristol on June 8th 2017, which children from the schools involved attending
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Here is a PDF of the hand-printed invite designed and printed by Nick Hand / Small Works Collective, Bristol
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Here are two posters designed for the launch
Undercurrents. An Imaginarium or Bricolage of Water Explorations. (Dark Ecologies) By Maggie Rowe (University of newcastle) and Antony Lyons in collaboration with Nick Hand (Letterpress Collective). This was a a performative stall/exhibition shown in Bristol and Newcastle in 2017. Here is a booklet and photographs of the Bristol stall in action.
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Here is a Flickr album of photos of the Bristol installation
This was also staged in Newcastle in November2017
This was also staged in Newcastle in November2017
Eels, Elvers - And the Famous Keynsham Elver Cake. A Bristol Festival of Nature Public Engagement Event; Keynsham 2017. Working NOVA, and with Andrew Kerr of the Sustainable Eel Group we ran a stall at this event. Below is a Flickr album of pictures of the stall. The film Protect the Eels was shown on screen with headphones for audio.
Here are the information posters created for this event. Thanks to Lindsay Endean / Bath Spa Live for producing the posters.
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Here is a pdf of the information boards
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A series of books and book extracts about local river heritage was also on display
