Katie Paterson's new artwork First There is a Mountain to be hosted by the Grundy Art Gallery Blackpool

It will be hosted by The Grundy on 2nd June 2019 and will take place on Blackpool beach as part of a nationwide tour.

The project involves the creation of a set of ‘buckets and spades’ in the form of world mountains, from which the public will be invited to build mountains of sand across the UK coastline and play out the world’s natural geography against a series of tidal times.

Each pail is a scale model of five of Earth’s mountains: Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Shasta (USA), Mount Fuji (Asia), Stromboli (Europe), and Uluru (Oceania).

Katie said: “From early childhood we understand that sand marks time.

“First There is a Mountain builds upon this concept, making us aware of mountain rocks’ erosion over millennia, rock shifting across Earth over continent’s evolution, forming unique fingerprints of sand across our modern coastline.

“The artwork invites the public to slow down, to consider the interconnectedness of the world, its immensity conveyed in miniature.