Harbinger by Elizabeth Clough

Barrow-born and Morecambe-based Elizabeth Clough invites you to the first showing of her year-long project in creative collaboration Deco Publique, theCOLAB and Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts.

A lament for birdsong, HARBINGER invites audiences to listen deeply to the present and the absent.

“Bringing together sound, sculpture and drawing for the first time in my practice, the show explores my love and respect for birds and their song, alongside my grief and anger around the decline in their populations and factors driving them. We live our lives among the birds and we experience them every time we are outside. We share our food and our environments. We are intertwined. What happens to the birds is happening to us.” Elizabeth Clough

Taking place as part of the Coastal Commissions development, is a collaborative research project with academics and researchers at Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts. This year-long project, supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council will feature three artistic commissions in 2025. The first sees Elizabeth Clough bring together her work in sculpture, sound and drawing for the first time. The second commission will be promoted through an open call launching in April 2025.

Exhibition | 22 - 24 March 2025, 11 - 4pm

Beach Cafe, Marine Rd West, Heysham, Morecambe