Tidal Works
Tony Plant is a Cornwall-based sculptor working with tide, duration and site. His large-scale Tidal Drawings are sculptural works walked into wet sand within a single tidal cycle. Made in one continuous pass, they operate as temporary land sculptures—formed through walking, determined by tidal constraint, and completed by erosion.
These works are not representations of landscape but physical interventions within it. Form emerges through movement. Structure is determined by tidal constraint. The sea completes the process through erasure.
In the studio, materials gathered from the tidal zone are assembled into sculptural Tidal Journals. Driftwood, salt-marked surfaces and weathered fragments arrive already worked by exposure to salt, weather and repeated return. Selected, cut and joined, these elements form a hinge between tidal action and fixed object. These works compress duration into object, fixing time through material accumulation.