The British Art & Design Association (BADA) creates projects at the Hilbre Centre for Arts, Science, and Sustainability. conceived by artist Terry Duffy, working with architect Dominic Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University, to develop heritage projects around the archipelago’s status as a nature reserve, RAMSAR site, and SSSI (Site of Scientific Special Interest: SSSI definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest).  

 In 2025 Drawing Out Hilbre with artists researcher and lead curator Joanna Leah was to develop Project 01 for the Independent Biennial Liverpool 2025. The ambition of Drawing Out Hilbre was to draw out this site’s unique and specific ecologies of cultural and bio diverse environments.

AIMS:

  • Establish the Hilbre Archipelago as a creative, ecological, arts, and science research lab that demonstrates and promotes sustainable, ecological practice. 

  • Establish connections between local and international artists and scientists interested in small island practices to develop a micro island network 

  • To augment micro-island conservation, heritage, and culture through Site-Specific Art. 

  • To work with notions of ‘with’, and ‘in relation’ to develop distinct new ecologies of relation within the Archipelago.

    ARTISTS:

  • Sarah Adams, Ann-Marie Atkinson, Adam Cain, Ashley Carusso, Barbara Cheney, Felicity Clear, Hanne Dale, Gillian Dyson, Terry Duffy, Cliff Hughes, The Mother Collective, Amanda, Oliphant, Ilona Skladzien, Mary-Ruth Walsh,  Ling Warlow, Rachel Welford, Dominic Wilkinson

 

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