Common Salt trailer…
“Welcome to our Show & Tell...”
Common Salt is a performance around a table - a ‘show and tell’. It explores the colonial, geographical history of England from the first Enclosure Act and the start of the East India Company in the 1600s, to 21st century narratives of trade, empire and culture. Since 2018 Sheila has been sharing Common Salt in museums, libraries and arts spaces around the UK with artist Sue Palmer.
A full subtitled recording of the work is now available to watch HERE.
Monsoonal Multiplicities residency
“How is London a Monsoonal City?”
For ten days between February 29th and March 30th 2021 Sheila was one of three artist who took up residence in the virtual space of Monsoonal Multiplicities - an exhibition of work arising from a five-year engagement with the monsoon in India, Bangladesh, London and Myanmar by the European Research Council funded project, Monsoon Assemblages.
Watch this short documentary by Hydar Dewachi to find out a little about she got up to.
On Considering The (English) Hedge
“O long line of green... O Hedge O Hedge...”
In August 2013 Sheila spent two weeks in Cambridge with straybird working on Ramble 1 of Rambles with Nature hosted by Cambridge Junction. Together they made a series of four short 'cine-poems' for small screens, such as smartphones, and later presented them as an installation. On Considering The (English) Hedge was the first of the series to be released for viewing.
Click here to watch the other three cine-poems and find out more about Rambles with Nature.