Glimpses of Our Bay – ArtyBird Carnforth Fellowship Alumni

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Personal artistic responses to Morecambe Bay, exploring place, heritage, memory, and lived experience.

Glimpses of Our Bay presents a collection of artworks by alumni of the ArtyBird Carnforth Fellowship, each offering a personal and immersive response to Morecambe Bay. The exhibition reflects time spent within carefully chosen locations across the Bay, where artists have engaged deeply with the landscape, its heritage, and the stories embedded within it. Through observation, reflection, and making, each work captures fleeting moments and individual interpretations of this distinctive environment.
The artworks are shaped by direct encounters with place, revealing emotional connections to land, sea, and shoreline, and exploring how memory and experience inform creative practice. Together, these diverse responses form a layered portrait of the Bay as both a physical and cultural landscape.
Established in 2007, ArtyBird Carnforth is a recognised Centre for Excellence in creative textile and art education. The Fellowship supports artists in developing confidence, professional practice, and creative ambition, championing self-belief and encouraging artists to take their work beyond the possible.