With mutual interests in counter-narratives of ancestral/indigenous knowledge and queer methodologies, Breakwater’s practice centres around the socio-politics of neo/colonialism, climate justice and migrants’ live experiences.
Breakwater is the recipient of the ACE Project Grant (2020-22) for the diaspora healing project Becoming Forest which proposes mental health as a collective responsibility and adopts a folk healing approach that engages cultural common ground, seasons and nature as critical healers.
Following the trajectories of neo-colonial extraction, their current projects explore how trauma instigates building blocks of community-led healing, resilience and collective intelligence. In 2021, Breakwater founded the research-practice working group Decolonising Botany, which challenges the processes and methodologies around nature-bound knowledge production.
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Contemporary visual artist exploring possibilities of our beliefs and behaviours.
Explores ways of enabling different forms of communities in relation to site and context.
New collaboration between We Live Here and award-winning photographer Allie Crewe.
The Creek Crawling Collective (CCC) is an outdoor learning collective inviting people to explore and share knowledge about the Thames Estuary's intertidal zone
Visual artist and muralist working in drawing, painting, sculpture, spray-painting and mixed-media.
Research and creative practice exploring sculpture and public space.
Transcending the divisions between art, architecture, theatre and social practice.
A collaboration between artists, researchers and scientists collecting sounds that were never recorded.
Community engagement from an experience of queerness and working class culture.
Artist, designer, researcher and creative educator exploring collective experience.
A constellation point for a spectrum of multidisciplinary works calling for radical change.
Challenging creative industry norms whilst uplifting marginalised communities.
An Essex born artist whose practice is strongly grounded in place, drawing on social histories, the labour of domestic and traditional crafts and the valuing of local knowledges.
Collaboration interrogating the once dominant nightclub culture of Essex.
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