Kate Lawrence - Dancer

Kate is currently performance coordinator and lecturer in dance and choreography at University of Surrey

She previously ran her own dance company called NOMADS touring Britain and abroad.


She has also worked as a freelance choreographer and performer with works supported by London Arts board, Arts Council of England and Southern Arts

She has worked on 2 site specific projects before

Janine Creaye - Visual Artist

Janine works on public art projects which include: Out of the Block/Head, Guildford Town centre, and the centre piece of Tilgate Park's Walled Garden. 
Exhibitions include: Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London; Cadogan Contemporary, Knightsbridge; Beaux Arts, Bath and Bartley Drey in Chelsea.

She is a member of Borderlands Artists' Consortium and 2 by 4 Artists as well as Hampshire Sculpture Trust

Why were we drawn to this project?

The year of the artist scheme attracted each of us to the idea of collaboration.   Janine had been drawing from contemporary dance for some time encouraged by a South East Arts direct support grant for new work. 

Kate had a brief taste of working with a visual artist in a previous project and wanted to explore that further, she also wanted the opportunity to choreograph a solo dance for the first time.  The first meeting involved Janine drawing from one of Kate's classes at Surrey University, followed by a discussion of past projects.

We found the site by accident when looking at Guildford castle and museum for a possible venue.  There was a postcard of St Catherine's Chapel at Artington for sale at the museum.  It was such a striking building, isolated on a hill top, yet neither of us knew where it was, despite driving into Guildford on the Portsmouth Road right by it many times. 

We set off immediately to look for this chapel and discovered it so stark and high up on the hill, but concealed from the road by trees.

The desire to use this mysterious ruin with its panoramic views across Guildford was immediate.   New thoughts sprang directly from this first visit and changed all the ideas we had begun to discuss.  The research began from here.