An exciting art project, run by three recent Lancaster University graduates, will feature a series of socially distanced walks through Morecambe’s West End, when members of the community will be invited to draw from sight, sound and movement.

The three BA Fine Art students have been awarded £2,300 to fund a special residency in Morecambe, which will see them launch ‘The GAP Studio’, a collective art space, in The Arndale Shopping Centre, Morecambe.

Funding has come from the community improvement group Creative West End (CWE) and Lancaster District CVS, who support and represent the voluntary sector, to deliver the eco-project in Morecambe.

Entitled ‘Look Again’, the community project will launch in early October at CWE’s Eco Market in Devonshire Road, Morecambe.

Núria Rovira, Kasia Tatys and Georgina Harris, who graduated with First Class Honours in BA Fine Art this summer, are all set to run a series of special guided and socially distanced walks throughout the day on October 3.

The walks will playfully explore how drawing can be used to understand the areas we live in and notice the unnoticed elements of our everyday life.

A short film, capturing people’s interactions, will also be released, as a narrative recording of the event allowing the public to follow in their shoes.

Núria, an artist from Catalonia, overlaps art and science in her work. By working with biology, she makes connections between humans and nature. Her work talks about our damaged planet in a combination of video and sculpture.

Georgina, originally from the South Coast, paints abstract landscapes that deal with the ties between forests and religious architecture, ancient systems of belief and the experience of looking upwards.

And Kasia, an emerging artist from Poland, who works with drawing to address the complicated issues of cultural displacement and the feeling of otherness, associated with immigration.

People interested in taking part in the free ‘Look Again’ project, should visit The GAP stall at October’s CWE Market in Morecambe to sign up.

Director of Study for Fine Art at Lancaster University Dr Sarah Casey, said: “The residency award is testimony to the quality of our Fine Art graduates and reflects the ethos of the Lancaster degree – to look beyond the boundaries of the studio.

“We’re delighted that these talented artists will be working in the local community after graduation as they embark on developing their careers as creative practitioners.”

The GAP Studio team will also be at the December Market where the final video of their Look Again project will be launched at a pop-up cinema. A digital version of the film will be released online for those people who cannot attend the event.

Alternatively, you can find The GAP Studio at The Arndale Centre in Morecambe, online at https://the-gap-studio.webflow.io/, or on Instagram @the.gap.studio

The aim of The GAP Studio is to help the trio develop their artistic careers and contribute to the local arts scene with a contemporary arts approach that benefits and grows from the community.

Jules Abraham, from Creative West End, says: "It is fantastic that the group have taken the opportunity to undertake a project supported by CWE and we hope we can form further such partnerships in the years ahead as we each move on with our creative journeys."

And Siân Johnson, who chairs the Venus & Cupid Arts Trust based in the Arndale says “We were very pleased to be able to offer shared space in our unit to these bright young artists from Lancaster University at the start of their careers.

“It is part of the objects of the trust to help young people in Morecambe to develop artistic skills and these three young artists also have experience in educational and community engagement work as part of their degree course.”