Sussex Waters

Sussex Waters November 2022- April 2023This is a new landscape water collection work for Pallant House in Chichester and involved researching and making a collection of Sussex river water as a continuation of my methodology of collecting water from a place to make a liquid mapping of the place. The exhibition context for this work is an exhibition Sussex Landscape where the thesis of the exhibition is a transhistorical survey of art relating to Sussex. This output also included a new SEAMARK wall work for Pallant House.An accompanying publication of Kovats new writing on rivers: ‘Backwaters’ is published in the exhibition catalogue ‘Sussex Landscape: Chalk Wood and Water’, distributed by Yale University Press. Isbn 978-1-869827-73-1‘Taking the Waters’ is an interview with Kovats published in Pallant House Magazine Winter/Spring Public facing online event 12th January 2023: Tania Kovats in conversation with curator Miriam O’Connor-Perks