SEAXBURH (Alaria), Installation View, 2025

SEAXBURH (Sisters), 2025. 4.5 x 1.2 x 0.5m.
Aluminium, silicone, sylvite, salt, glass, water from the estuary of the River Great Ouse, algae, kelp, cotton, jesmonite, ground limestone, chalk, peat, quartz, albite, bearthite, dolomite, marl.

SEAXBURH (Sisters), Detail, 2025.
Aluminium, silicone, sylvite, salt, glass, water from the estuary of the River Great Ouse, algae, kelp, cotton, jesmonite, ground limestone, chalk, peat, quartz, albite, bearthite, dolomite, marl.

SEAXBURH (Sisters), 2025. 4.5 x 1.2 x 0.5m.
Aluminium, silicone, sylvite, salt, glass, water from the estuary of the River Great Ouse, algae, kelp, cotton, jesmonite, ground limestone, chalk, peat, quartz, albite, bearthite, dolomite, marl.

SEAXBURH (Sisters), Detail, 2025.
Silicone, sylvite, salt, jesmonite, ground limestone, chalk, peat, quartz, albite, bearthite, dolomite, marl.

SEAXBURH (Sisters), Detail, 2025.
Silicone, sylvite, salt, algae, jesmonite, ground limestone, chalk, peat, quartz, albite, bearthite, dolomite, marl.

SEAXBURH (Sisters), Detail, 2025.
RIA (Chapter 2), 2025, 5 min looped video.
Silicone, sylvite, salt, phragmites australis reeds, jesmonite, ground limestone, chalk, peat, quartz, albite, bearthite, dolomite, marl.

SEAXBURH (Sisters), Detail, 2025.
Silicone, sylvite, salt, algae, jesmonite, ground limestone, chalk, peat, quartz, albite, bearthite, dolomite, marl.

SEAXBURH (Sisters), 2025
RIA (Chapter 2), 2025, 5 min looped video
Aluminium, silicone, sylvite, salt, steel, glass, phragmites australis reeds, kelp, cotton, water from the River Great Ouse, algae, jesmonite, ground limestone, chalk, peat, quartz, albite, bearthite, dolomite, marl.

SEAXBURH (Anguilla Anguilla), 2025
RIA (Chapter 1), 2025, 5 min looped video
Silicone, steel, aluminium, elder, phragmites australis reeds, glass.

SEAXBURH (Cutter Suction 2), 2025. 2.5 x 1.4 x 0.4m.
Silicone, aluminium, ash, dried foxgloves, fat.

SEAXBURH (Cutter Suction 2), Detail, 2025.
Silicone, aluminium, ash, dried foxgloves.

SEAXBURH (Cutter Suction 2), Detail, 2025.
Silicone, ash, dried foxgloves.

SEAXBURH (Cutter Suction 2), Detail, 2025.
Silicone, ash, fat.

SEAXBURH (Cutter Suction 2), 2025. 3.5 x 1.1 x 0.2m.
Silicone, steel, elder wood, fat, thuidium tamariscinum moss, horsechestnut blossom, glass.

SEAXBURH (Cutter Suction 2), Detail, 2025.
Silicone, elder wood, thuidium tamariscinum moss, horsechestnut blossom, glass.

SEAXBURH (Cutter Suction 2), Detail, 2025.
Silicone, elder wood, thuidium tamariscinum moss, horsechestnut blossom, glass.

All images with thanks to Josef Konczak

SEAXBURH (Alaria) brings together a body of sculptural work with the three-part video work RIA. These works were made over several years as part of Austin’s practice-led PhD at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Tracing the course of the River Great Ouse, which runs through the landscape of the Fens, a large area of drained wetland in East Anglia, SEAXBURH is structured around imagined dialogues with figures and entities that inhabit sites on the course of the river. The installation weaves narratives through these sites that draw on local histories, ecologies and folklore. 

These works in the installation propose and rehearse intimate engagements between human, organic, industrial and geological figures in the landscape, seeking new forms of material sensitivity and knowledge. Raising figures and voices from the Fenland terrain that span human and  nonhuman, lively and spectral realms, the works 
offer poetic forms through which to think in new ways about the psychic and material entanglements that shape our experience of threatened landscapes.