9/7/25 (Barrow and Tweed)

Written by jgrowden

Hello,

How are things? I’m going to be going on an adventure abroad soon, but on a closer adventure this weekend, so thought I’d better write a little blog update. Maybe there’ll be blogging from far away, who knows? Keep your eyes peeled!

A few weeks ago I was out beside (and in) the river Tweed with Connecting Threads for the Encounters week as part of the Watery Commons Residency. I’m one of 6 artists working over the summer around the river, and will be continuing to work on it in August. Here are a few images I collected over the week:

Underwater photograph at the bottom of a river with small minnow fish swimming by
Underwater photograph at the bottom of a river with small minnow fish swimming by
Self-portrait taken from underwater of the artist, face obscured by ripples
a piece of string underwater, golden light, bubbles
black and white polaroid photo of the river tweed from the banks.
colour polaroid of a woman half-submerged in the river, the sky is clear blue and the banks are green.
black and white polaroid of hands holding a jar filled with water and a small salmon in the bottom of it

This weekend, I’ll be taking some films down to Barrow-in-Furness to share a programme of films and join Sophie Broadgate in a Q&A afterwards. I’m in love with the bright pink poster they made for it, look! Click here to book tickets.

Jessie x