Kurt Jackson’s new exhibition, The Fowey opened with a wonderful preview of over 300 guests on Friday 1st September.
Over the course of the evening, guests were given the first look at Kurt Jackson’s latest blockbuster, in which focuses on one of Cornwall’s most iconic rivers, the Fowey; tracing her route from the source high up on Bodmin Moor through farmland and wooded valleys across the county to where she meets the sea in the sheltered deep water estuary by Fowey town.
Kurt treated the crowd to a short but fascinating speech explaining the evolution of his Fowey project and how rivers themselves can be seen as borometers of an ecosystem’s health.Â
For The Fowey, the Jackson Foundation Gallery has partnered with Friends of the Earth, a pioneering charity that works the protect people and planet. The evening was also the opening of Transforming Tomorrow, a photographic exhibition which tells the story of Friends of the Earths most iconic change-making campaigns. Attendees were also treated to an inspiring talk by Friends of the Earth’s co-executive director Miriam Turner about the charity’s environmental wins over the last half-century, from early work to create a ban international whale hunting to the recent second moratorium on fracking in the UK.
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Below are a selection of images from the evening, can you spot yourself?
All photos by Mike Newman.
The Fowey runs until February 24th 2024 at the multi-award winning Jackson Foundation Gallery, St Just.
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Kurt Jackson: The Fowey
Until February 24th 2024.
Jackson Foundation,
St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7LB.