I possibly shouldn’t be doing this…

A New View - remains of a temporary 'Pop-Up Exhibition'

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A fleeting intervention in the urban everyday: fragments of the Norfolk coast scenes transplanted to a landlocked city that has forgotten the sea.

For a brief moment, these small works appeared unannounced on walls, in doorways, placed on empty shop fronts, offered without signature, without price, without permission.

Some were taken/removed within hours, maybe claimed by the public and quietly carried home. Others lingered, exposed to weather and indifference, until they vanished: perhaps now cherished in private by the ‘finder’. But others perhaps discarded and ended their travelled to the bin - who knows?

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This was never about permanence. It was a quiet provocation: what happens when art refuses the sanctuary of the gallery and steps, unguarded, into the flow of ordinary life? Who decides what is precious, what is rubbish, what belongs and where?

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Now, in the controlled light of these walls and spaces, the surviving pieces (and their documented ghosts) return and are create a permanent reminder the original photography and temporary exposure. Stripped of their original anonymity and risk, they carry traces of the streets they once inhabited.

A few remain, but for how long? A fleeting gift and what was a visual escape to the Norfolk coast.