Graeme Walker.

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Graeme Walker.

Graeme Walker, ‘Dennis' Pebble characture’, 2008.Drawn by Graeme Walker at The Brighton Pebble Museum pre-launch event in January at Pheonix Art Fair, Brighton

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Graeme Walker, ‘Dennis' Pebble characture’, 2008.
Drawn by Graeme Walker at The Brighton Pebble Museum pre-launch event in January at Pheonix Art Fair, Brighton

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The Brighton Pebble Museum

Brighton-based artist Graeme Walker founded a new project The Brighton Pebble Museum with an event on Brighton Beach on Saturday. Pebble-related games, talks and performances encouraged visitors to participate in geological, geographic and artistic activities. The ‘museum’ aims to “highlight both the geological and aesthetic beauty of the everyday pebble and the ongoing human generated erosion of the UK’s fragile coastline.”

AIR member Maggie Tran – appointed pebble museum Librarian – is responsible for collecting pebble-related stories. She says: “I have been contributing to the archive by collecting stories in which stones and pebbles play important parts in stories as plot devices.”

Graeme Walker plans to open the free mobile ‘museum’ quarterly on Brighton’s stony beach. Outside of opening hours, The Brighton Pebble Museum will be available on request by individuals who wish to explore the library and pebble archive. Everyone from amateur enthusiasts to professional geologists to families are invited to get involved, and “consider the joy of small, smooth rocks”.

www.tbpm.co.uk

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