A Commission from the Estuary Festival in 2016 led to the casting of A Crossing Bell by the Whitechapel Bell Factory. The bell was housed in a structure designed that suggested Essex vernacular architecture, was made from reclaimed planks from Southend pier and was located at the west shore of the Thames on the site of the Gravesend ferry (and the port where the SS Windrush docked). Visitors to the festival were invited to ring the bell and offer a prayer for safe passage, theirs or someone else’s, a friend or a stranger, near or far.
Other versions of A Crossing Bell were created for What Is to be Done? at the Today Art Gallery Beijing (2017), The Studio for Arousing Tools IV at the Antwerp Art Weekend (2019) and as a score in Tomoko Hojo’s Unfinished Descriptions (yoin press, 2023).
