Spurn Point
Spurn Point 2017, is a single large scale colour photograph included in the exhibition Somewhere Becoming Sea curated by Steven Bode, Director of Film and Video Umbrella for the Humber Street Gallery as part of Hull 2017, UK City of Culture. It is a meditation on Ralph Vaughan Williams's lyrical slow tempo work, andante sostenuto 'Spurn Point' for cello and piano composed in 1926 as part of his Six Studies in English Folk Song. Spurn is a narrow and fragile shingle and sand spit that both divides and links the Humber Estuary to the North Sea, the German Ocean, the Norwegian Sea. It is a melancholic landscape of measure and witness; a marker of tidal change and a peninsula of shifting hope.
'Amazing work by Lavinia Greenlaw and Guy Moreton'
– Philip Hoare
'Edges, borders, the delineation of territory are emphasised as arbitrary or at least temporary. Spurn Point is the place where the tides take much of the displaced material from here and a photograph by Moreton captures the mudflats of the changing coastline there'
– Caroline Douglas, Director, The Contemporary Art Society