For Estuary 2025, Cherelle Sappleton and Tom Morris are collaborating on Still Waters, a new immersive sound installation presented as part of Ivan Morison's Sea Like a Mirror.
Cherelle Sappleton is an award-winning British-Caribbean interdisciplinary artist based in Ramsgate (UK), working across collage, photography, sound and installation. Describing herself as ‘a cooperative and collection of organisms’, her practice is an ongoing investigation into the body's transformational capacity, as well as what it means to have a body in a world where the flux and potential of identity is bound by class, gender, race, and ability. A trained Sound Therapist & Somatic Healer with a background in experimental theatre, she uses sound, music and movement to tune into heightened states- a process which directs and informs her creative practice.
Tom Morris is record producer, mix engineer, university lecturer and researcher with 20 years of music industry experience and 5 years of teaching experience in Higher Education. He worked with countless artists in both small and high-end recording facilities and was awarded the Music Producer’s Guild Award for “Breakthrough Engineer of the Year” in 2012. For a number of years, he was the in-house producer and studio manager for 4AD Records in London and have a particular interest in artist development, the creative process and collaborative work in music production. Tom is currently a PhD Researcher in Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University.
After earning an MA in Fine Art from the Central Saint Martins College of Arts in (2013), Sappleton was awarded the Denton’s Prize (2017). Her work has been exhibited both in the UK and internationally, with solo shows at Phoenix Gallery, Exeter and Sutton House, London. Group exhibitions include Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; Hotel Michele, Margate and Summertime Gallery, New York amongst others. In addition to her exhibitions, Sappleton has been commissioned to create work for a variety of institutions and organizations, including Great Ormond Street Hospital, the National Trust, Hospital Rooms and the National Theatre.
About Still Waters
Taking inspiration from water as a source and site of relaxation, Still Waters is an immersive new sound work co-created with young people at Northfleet Technology College.
Through field recording trips, sound editing workshops, and autonomous musical performances, the work has emerged out of a process of learning and exchange between the artists and young people – facilitating a shared exploration of their relationship to water through experimental sound practice.
Echoing the format of a ‘sound bath’, Still Waters functions as a collaborative response to Northfleet’s local waterways. It asks how sound practices might be used to create moments of calm and relaxation, while also opening up reflection on the different associations people have with water.
Still Waters is presented as part of Sea Like a Mirror, a partnership project led by Cement Fields, with Art Gene, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, North East Lincolnshire Council & East Marsh United, and Super Culture. With thanks to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). Supported with public funding from Arts Council England. Presented in Gravesend for Estuary 2025 with Estuary Festival.
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