Part business, part campaign, part arts project, Raybel Charters was born from a desire to inspire and create change towards a climate-conscious and socially just system of trade.
Their work is based around the themes of water, trade, transport, nature, heritage and people. They aim to work collaboratively, inclusively and creatively, on a global and a local scale.
Raybel Charters' home is the Thames estuary, from central London to the coast of Kent – but from there they extend out, from estuary to ocean, from creek to canal.
Blending art, environmentalism, and heritage, this unique project will fuse musical performances, spoken word, and storytelling. At its heart is the historic 1920s Thames Sailing Barge Raybel, which will serve as the focal point for a creative exploration of the Thames estuary.
benjin: The Last Days of Sail
benjin is a multi-instrumentalist, artist and story teller. His solo compositions use classical guitar, cello, harp, clarinet, vocals, nyckelharpa, field recordings and found sounds. Aside from regular concert performances, benjin's music has been featured on BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio 3 and at Tate Galleries.
Mataoi Austin Dean is an artist who uses intaglio printmaking to create images and symbols that explore England’s and Guyana’s darkly intertwined histories, throwing light upon moments of resistance as well as unearthing stories of coloniality and rebellion embedded in English landscape and architecture. Find out more about Mataoi’s artistic research and his ground breaking work on sea shanty songs and their African origin aboard Thames Sailing Barge Raybel.
David Nettleingham is a sociologist and working-class artist from the Isle of Thanet. In both his social research and creative practice, he is interested in the power of narrative, memory and mythology; the stories we tell about ourselves and others, and how these form the basis of our experience. Using sculpture, painting, and installation he asks questions of ownership and access – to places, pasts and imagined futures, in work that aims to unsettle, defamiliarize or re- enchant how we see and interact with the world.
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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