Through countless generations, the seafront has provided a place for leisure and time for reflection.

Portsmouth-based visual artist Dewi Cary has been working closely with local communities to gather their responses to the ever-changing Southsea seafront. The result of this is an extraordinary, immersive video artwork, ‘High Spring Tide’. A unique experience of personal testimony and collective memories of this transitory place we call home.

Dewi is known for his installation and moving image works that explore the conscious and subconscious and how we move between the borders of the mind and the physical world at any given time. Dewi creates atmosphere and conveys different emotive feelings in his moving image art by using different editing techniques and colour grading effects.

An Arts Council spokesperson said: “It’s great to award High Spring Tide a National Lottery Project Grant through our open access funding programme. With its focus on the seafront in Portsmouth – an Arts Council Priority Place – this project supports our mission to bring creativity and culture to doorsteps all over the country.”

Artist Bio:

I am a visual artist with long-term mental health issues who identifies as neurodiverse. I use moving-image to create films, video art and installations in addition I create performances, drawings, and paintings.

My work explores concepts of the conscious and the sub-conscious and how we move between the borders of the mind and the physical world around us.

This encompasses my personal perception of the world how I view it, and what society reflects onto the individual. I believe that people with mental health problems should be valued for their strengths, insight, and creativity and that when they are, everyone benefits.

I have recently been funded by British Council Unlimited to take part in an international video art exchange project with an artist in Nepal.