Join artist film-makers Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore for an open studio at GROW, where they will share work-in-progress from their Sea for Yourself Mount Batten Project.

Part of Sea for Yourself, Kayla and Stuart’s residency explores the heritage, memory and maritime environment of Mount Batten through moving image, community collaboration and experimental film-making. The wider project includes an evolving intergenerational 360 film, created with children from Hooe Primary Academy and people with strong connections to Mount Batten, alongside a new short artists’ film poem, King Tide.

At the open studio, visitors will be able to see and talk about work currently in development, including:

• the evolving 360 film, presented in single-screen form, with edited sequences from the heritage trail walk with children and recordings of some of their poems, written in response to their experience of Mount Batten and the Artillery Tower

• a compilation reel from King Tide (working title), a new short film poem being developed during the GROW residency using images created directly onto upcycled 35mm film

• examples of Kayla and Stuart’s earlier direct animation film poems, including Purling, Cadence, Flow and Flora

• tabletop displays of 35mm artwork and direct animation test strips created through the residency

• a wall-mounted lightbox presentation of Sunset Strip, their year-of-sunsets film commissioned by Channel 4 and the Arts Council

The open studio offers a chance to step inside the artists’ process and see how place, memory, moving image and mark-making are coming together through this unique residency.

Please note: the open studio will focus on the 360 film and King Tide. It will not include material relating to the separate exhibition programme being developed for the Mount Batten Centre.

Dates:
Friday 20 March 2026, 5pm–7pm
Saturday 21 March 2026, 11am–2pm

Location:
GROW Studios