Sculpture on the Sands

JUNE 2025

Continuing his ongoing relationship with the Lowestoft community, Suffolk-based sculptor Laurence Edwards has contributed ‘Shimmer’ and ‘Borrowed Breath’ to the South Beach presentation this year.

Part of Messums East and Messums Creative’s inaugural Sculpture on the Sand.

JUNE 2024

Multidisciplinary designer, educator and researcher Julia Lohmann creates sculptures using seaweed. As designer in residence at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013, she founded the Department of Seaweed, exploring the use of seaweed as a creative material. She made a seaweed pavilion for the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos to engage delegates with issues facing the natural world.

JUNE - AUGUST 2024

Laurence Edwards’s five 8ft Walking Men were installed on South beach, Lowestoft ahead of the First Light Festival and for the duration of summer 2024. The Walking Men sculpture had travelled throughout the UK, including a stay at Messums West and Blenheim Palace and were previously on display in Australia.

JUNE - AUGUST 2023

For the duration of the First Light Festival 2023 and throughout the summer, Laurence Edwards’s six-foot bronze ‘Chthonic Head’ resided on South Beach, Lowestoft. The sculpture was bedded into the sand on the tideline, exposed at low tide and submerged under the waves when the water was high.