Elegy for a Swim
Elegy for a Swim
About this project
The experience of making wild swims around the coastlines of the British Isles as well as in urban water and inland rivers is tinged always with a sense of melancholy. The act of swimming is exhilarating, nerve-racking, intensely vibrant; yet, even though each immersion is captured on digital film, there is constant awareness that this – this now, this sensation – can neither be relived nor shared. This body of work acts as an elegaic realisation of this paradox.
Each piece measures 78 x 55 cm and is hand printed with a text emboss on Hahnemuhle paper.
Elegy to The Wandle
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-The-Wandle-e1457027771106-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to The Thames
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-The-Thames-e1457027754231-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to St. Non's Bay
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-St.-Nons-Bay-e1457027739792-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to Southerndown
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-Southerndown-e1457027724732-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to Rockham Bay
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-Rockham-Bay-e1457027705998-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to River Findhorn
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-River-Findhorn-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to Baggy Point Caves
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-Baggy-Point-Caves-e1457027379530-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to Epphaven
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-Epphaven-e1457027441891-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to Hampstead Heath
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-Hampstead-Heath-e1457027472142-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to Hayburn Wyke
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-Hayburn-Wyke-e1457027627351-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to Lee Bay
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-Lee-Bay-e1457027655573-480x640.jpg)
Elegy to Loch Melfort
![](https://www.lucydevenish.com/wp-content/uploads/Elegy-to-Loch-Melfort-e1457027680212-480x640.jpg)