Shore Hunt was originally conceived by artists Rudy Kanhye and Lauren La Rose as part of their Fallow Land residency (commissioned by Art Walk Projects, (2025) developing a stretch of urban scrubland into a thriving habitat.
Their Warning Lights mural, installed for the 2025 Art Walk Porty Festival, takes the beacon symbol as an indicator of warning as well as celebration, whilst designating the Shore Hunt growing space; evoking a space to gather, a space for creativity, hope and celebration, but also of criticality and caution.
The planting of oyster leaf plants (mertensia martima) builds on local and global urgency around marine health, of the value nature based solutions bring to stabilizing our shores, and to the role oyster bed restoration has for coastal protection and boosting biodiversity.
The Shore Hunt space provides a space to gather and to make connections shore to shore. In coming months the space will serve as a growing lab hosting a series of coastal ecology talks, workshops and creative interventions.
Visitors are very welcome to add their own native coastal plants to this developing shore space, cultivating this piece of urban scrubland.
