Robbie Hudson
Robbie Hudson's project aims to challenge the cliched rose-tinted view of rural life. He is embarking on the extreme physical challenge of swimming the 7.5 mile length of Lake Ullswater, the same place that inspired Wordsworth's Daffodils poem. He expects this to be an experience that will force him to adapt and alter his perception of the rural environment, expressing himself in large scale drawings in canvas that he will work on during training and after swimming.
The canvases themselves will also have been submerged in water (in the River Eden) and the drawing will be a response to the marks and stains on them made by the rocks, plants and flowing water of the river. The project will highlight the harsher and more extreme sides of rural life, presenting a different reading of the lake recorded whimsically by literature.
