Description
HomeLAND is a site-specific art installation of 100+ swallows with engraved tin beaks: symbols of migration, memory and belonging. Installed in summer 2025 beneath a Hornbeam tree at Southcombe Barn, Devon, it evokes a forest of stillness for a species constantly migrating.
The birds will be co-created through workshops for local schoolchildren and refugees with Beyond Borders, plus two family drop-in sessions in collaboration with the National Garden Scheme. Led by myself and local ceramicist Kate Lyons-Miller, these clay and tin workshops foster kinaesthetic empathy: adults and children learning from one another through shared movement and making.
Formed from local Dartmoor clay and Ashburton tin, HomeLAND will give rise to conversations about the deeply entrenched heritage of our land, and wider contemporary issues of migration, refuge and refugees. It will offer reflections on the past, present and future of “Home” as a continuum.