Kezia Reddick (with Laura Webb) - Sets, Series and Ensembles

Kezia Reddick

Welcome to the first day of our Autumn exhibition, Sets, Series and Ensembles. Over the next two weeks here on the CollectConnect website we've got a fabulous selection of art in public places alongside 'First Responses' from a series of writers and creative people. As artists and writers we are constantly collecting ideas, objects, themes, and sentiments. We are often searching for the connections and narratives that help us understand both our lives and our art. 

We start the exhibition with this wandering sculpture from Kezia Reddick. It has crawled into the Feltham Circles, a series of outdoor graffiti walls in Pevensey Road Nature Reserve, in South West London. We also have an amazing CollectConnect debut today, from writer Laura Webb. Read her response below.

First Response - Laura Webb

A to B

I've been crawling around for a while now,
curving wire fingers around
objects which delight me.

I swallowed mouthfuls of the sea
and coughed up these stones
one by one, their pilchard song

echoing around the car park
in a way which surprised everyone.
Later, I wound myself up

so tightly I could feel my heart swinging
in the soles of my feet. These walls bring
faces to my dreams and I transmit 

the signals I detect: three quartered moon,
smalltalk of fox and helicopters.
The unlit earth turning on its hinges.

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Keziah Reddick is an artist and Foundation student in London who works across a range of media. She has a particular interest in telling stories through her art. She has a passion for stories from ancient civilisations.

Laura Webb made her debut with CollectConnect in November 2024.