Talk: Scour - the Hidden Landscapes of Forge Mill

Schedule

Fri Oct 31 2025 at 10:00 am to 11:00 am

UTC+00:00

Location

Gateway Gallery | Shrewsbury, EN

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Come to an artist talk about a heritage art project based around a unique needle scouring mill in Redditch
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CPRE Shropshire's Sense of Place is a series of artist workshops, talks, and collaboration between CPRE and local artists as well as an exhibition.



About Sense of Place

The venue for Sense of Place is the Gateway Gallery, Shrewsbury. The exhibition at the Gateway Gallery is free and open for viewing throughout October and will include photographs taken by Shropshire residents of their favourite parts of the county. Images were submitted to the Sense of Place photograhic awards over the summer of 2025.




About the organiser: CPRE Shropshire

CPRE Shropshire, is the county branch of the national charity, CPRE, the countryside charity.

We are an independent charity supported by the resources and guidance of CPRE's national office in London.

Our aim is to promote the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of Shropshire's landscape by encouraging environmentally sustainable use of land and other resources in the county's towns and countryside.

We campaign for our beautiful landscape and work to protect, promote and enhance our towns and countryside.

This is the second photography awards we have run in recent years with "My Shropshire" taking place in 2019.

CPRE Shropshire needs volunteers! Contact us if you think you can help us on [email protected]



The Talk

Keith Ashford and Liz Turner are Shrewsbury-based artists who work together on site on specific public art projects.

For this talk they will present Scour, their extensive heritage art project based around a unique needle scouring mill in Redditch, Worcs.

They will discuss their process of exploring a landscape to make artworks with a genuinely strong sense of place; reflecting man’s shaping of the land over time and the meanings it holds for people who live there now.

More about the project here: https://scourforgemill.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/scour-ii-the-museum-in-the-landscape



The Day's Programme on Friday 31 October 2025

10-11am
Talk: Scour: The hidden landscapes of Forge Mill (Keith Ashford and Liz Turner)

10.30am- 12 noon
Workshop: Sensing Land: Roaming Memory: An exploratory drawing workshop (Sarah Goudie)

2-4pm
Workshop: Sensing Land: Roaming Memory: An exploratory drawing workshop (Sarah Goudie)

2.30-4pm
Workshop: Creative writing: A Sense of the Severn (Chris Kinsey)

2.30pm
Demo: Straw thread spinning (Hanny Newton)



About the venue: the Gateway Gallery, Shrewsbury

The Gateway Gallery is a purpose-built gallery situated on the river in the heart of Shrewsbury in Shropshire. It holds regular exhibitions of contemporary art as well as community-focused events throughout the year. The gallery is housed within the Gateway Centre which also hosts a great cafe overlooking the River Severn (serving hot food and drinks) and has a number of workshop spaces available.

Address: Gateway Gallery, Gateway Centre, Chester Street, Shrewsbury SY1 1NB



About our sponsors

CPRE Shropshire is extremely grateful to the sponsors of the exhibition and workshops:


  • Gateway Gallery
  • Frame it (by Kaleidoscope)
  • Ochre Building Design
  • Rotary Club Shrewsbury Darwin





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Gateway Gallery, Chester Street, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

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