Tidal Works
Cornwall-based contemporary artist Tony Plant creates large-scale tidal drawings walked into wet sand within a single tidal cycle. They record an action in tidal time, made in one pass with no return. These site-responsive works move through clarity, disruption, and erasure as the sea returns, shaped by tide, weather, and forces beyond the horizon rather than representing landscape.
In the studio, shoreline materials gathered from the literal tidal zone are assembled into sculptural Tidal Journals. They are about fixing time. Duration is carried in pre-lived materials already marked by salt, weather, and repeated return.