Harbour House presented Rhys Morgan’s LGBTQIA+ Sea Shanty choir, Seaweed in the Fruit Locker, with FREE local mulled apple juice and creative sustainable food workshops by social art collective JarSquad in the gallery.
Morgan and the Seaweed in the Fruit Locker choir performed as part of the celebrations and their performance included traditional festive shanties and a new shanty commissioned for Kingsbridge in response to local histories
Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas: Seaweed in the Fruit Locker Performance. 2023. Credit: Dom Moore.
Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas: Seaweed in the Fruit Locker Performance. 2023. Credit: Dom Moore.
Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas: Seaweed in the Fruit Locker Performance. 2023. Credit: Dom Moore.
JarSquad is a local, ongoing social art project turning surplus food into different preserves and jams; connecting the dots between food waste, climate action,and combating social isolation. The project not only explores a deep interest in tasty food, but also starts conversations around how we could be more active in promoting circular systems of food production,preservation, and communal abundance. They will be sharing their dried fruit produce and local mulled apple juice 12-3pm in the gallery, as part of KingsbridgeCelebrates Christmas.
Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas: Jar Squad at Harbour Hosue. 2023. Credit: Dom Moore.
Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas: Jar Squad at Harbour Hosue. 2023. Credit: Dom Moore.
Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas: Jar Squad at Harbour Hosue. 2023. Credit: Dom Moore.
Kingsbridge Celebrates Christmas: Jar Squad at Harbour Hosue. 2023. Credit: Dom Moore.
About the Artist
Morgan recently completed an MFA at Goldsmiths and was selected for New Contemporaries, a prestigious annual survey exhibition of emerging and early career artists from UK art schools.
About the Exhibition
Rhys Morgan: Seaweed in the Fruit Locker documents the LGBTQIA+ Sea Shanty choir of the same name created by Plymouth-based queer artist, Rhys Morgan. The project explores lost histories and queer motifs through the tradition of shanty singing. Morgan and the choir use their lived experiences to rework existing shanties and inspire new ones, responding to personal stories and local histories. As Seaweed in the Fruit Locker has developed, it has become a project of co-creation, with members of the choir workshopping and contributing their own shanties to their growing repertoire.
