This installation and art walk were conceived and implemented within 6 weeks by the Cloud Gallery artists and a team of volunteers and supporting artists.

The Cloud Space is a calm enclosure for everyone to enter and experience in their own way, surrounded by natural materials and away from the urban pace. The spiral walls are constructed with willow, while clay forms a central disc. Each of these materials has a particular relationship with water, the substance of clouds. Images of the sky and passing clouds were captured and drawn down into this artificial space. This view of the atmosphere, where the forces of global warming are gathering, is dislocated from our normal perspective. It is an invitation to reflect on our place on the earth.

The associated Artists’ Walk of Shrewsbury included a number of places where people were encouraged to“stand and stare” and where we temporarily placed Erratic boulder artworks. An image of a view or detail visible from the place was transferred onto each boulder - some of these images are shown below. The boulders echo those left as “erratics” following the retreat of glacial ice, such as the Bellstone. In these spaces, we can appreciate the passing of time and see the detail and distinctiveness of the place around us. It is a time to use all our senses, to experience being in our own bodies in this place, and consider that “being” is as important as “doing”.