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| Gabrielle Hoad & Megan Calver | Clouded Border | 2021-2025 |
Clouded Border is an extended collaboration with
Megan Calver, developed with and for Durlston Country Park &
National Nature Reserve in Dorset. This site-responsive project draws
inspiration from Durlston's history as a lookout and signalling
station. Named after a variety of night-flying moth found on site,
the project also references an innovative radio-based navigation
system developed in part and deployed at Durlston during World War
II. Known as Oboe, it allowed RAF bombers to precisely locate targets
in Nazi-occupied Europe - at night or in heavy cloud or smog.
Two
periods of residency at Durlston itself (June 2021 and March 2022)
enabled us to research the site in depth, while a micro-residency at
Exeter Phoenix (August 2021) allowed us to develop ideas about
presenting the work in a gallery context. The first stage of the
project culminated in an exhibition in the Belvedere of Durlston
Castle (September 2022). A further development of the project,
focusing on the work of Oboe inventor Alec Reeves, was supported by a
CAMP Research Residency in 2023.
A short film - The Signal and the Noise - made with Arts Council funding and completed in 2025, distils much of our research and thinking into a new moving image work.
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