First there is a Mountain
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First There is a Mountain is a new participatory artwork by Katie Paterson which will tour the British Isles’ diverse coastline from 31 March to 27 October 2019. Consisting of a unique public edition of ‘buckets and spades’ in the form of world mountains, the artwork will tour twenty-five high profile coastal art venues around the UK on a weekly/bi-weekly basis. Taking place each Sunday over the thirty-two week period of British Summer Time, each venue will stage a unique sand pail building event on their local sandy beach, inviting the public to transform their beach into mountains of sand. The artwork will form a time-based topographical map to connect the Earth’s oldest rocks with the UK’s geological landscape, celebrating the local, national and international.
