Unpublished tour

Stories from the Forest, Stories from the Sea was a series of workshops that focussed on how to use photography and other visual material to tell stories about place. The project was led by Documentary Photographer, David Severn …

Over the course of the workshop sessions, I have been continuing work recently started, photographing ancient trees in the Sherwood Forest nature reserve at Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire.

I am new to this isolated peninsula in South West Cumbria, relocating at the start of 2021 from the open moors and industrial valleys of the South Pennines to the open seascape of the Duddon Estuary and Irish Sea.

I am surrounded by nature and reminders of the history that has created Millom and Haverigg. More often than not every day life takes over and I accept its isolation and quirkiness as a matter of fact.

Black Combe, just short of a mountain, dominates southwest Cumbria. From its flanks, on a clear day, you can see for miles: Isle of Man, Wales, Scotland, Ireland.

I have lived in Millom for many years now and although I am an offcomer I have been coming to the area since childhood.

Sunday’s Flower Walk. Following Norman Nicholson and his Father and his Uncle Jim in 1925, in 1981 and today …

St. Michael’s Church, Hawkshead, in partnership with Graythwaite Estate and Wordsworth Grasmere invites you to visit the Sandys Chapel for a rare chance to enter in and experience the collaborative work of actor Julie Jackson and artist Irene Rogan. Final rescheduled date, Saturday 26 Feb, 2pm …

Here are two videos from the Unpublished Tour launch event, held at Millom Palladium on 27 November, 2021. In the first, David Cooper introduces Irene Rogan, who gives a presentation on the development of Unpublished Tour and her own contributions and works …

Restoration Remix was a sound performance that took place at the dunes in Haverigg, performed by musicians and singers Neil and Jo Wade, acoustic drummer Dave Baker, environmental artist Irene Rogan and singer songwriter Hannah Rose Kessler.

Since August, artists participating in Unpublished Tour have explored these places from the land and the water as sites for shared creative journeys. On the 27th November we will be showing the results of their work at two special events.

Irene Rogan invites you to witness the performative installation of 'An Odyssey: Encountering Fear and Hope'. The event will take place on the incoming tide (between 11.00 and 12.30 p.m.) on 20th October and will become visible as you approach and pass over Foxfield Viaduct.

Internationally acclaimed documentary photographer David Severn has been commissioned to deliver a programme of five workshop sessions. Workshop participants will explore how to use photographic images to tell the story of Millom.

Environmental artists Di McGhee and Irene Rogan invite you to participate in an arts and science event in Haverigg dunes and to select your own personal spot - or quadrat, as the title of the event implies - for further exploration. A quadrat is a frame, traditionally square, used in ecology and geography to isolate a standard unit of area for study.

Richard Scott, former botanist with the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology will lead this inspiring three mile walk, providing insights into how plants adapt to life in dunes, strandlines, shingle and saltmarsh.

Earlier this year the Cumbria Wildlife Trust invited artist Irene Rogan to develop temporary artworks and projects on Haverigg dunes as part of the national Dynamic Dunescapes programme. Irene asked international environmental artist Tim Pugh to work with her.