HELP CREATE A NEW SCULPTURE
THE LONG WAIT - GATHERING (2026)
Alongside Laurence Edwards’s bronze sculpture The Long Wait on Lowestoft beach, visitors are invited to take part in creating a second, evolving artwork, The Long Wait - Gathering'.
From the First Light Festival launch on 20th June and throughout the summer, you are invited to gather pebbles and drop them into a specially created sculpture by Laurence. Slowly, collectively, the figure will fill, transformed by the many hands that contribute to it.
HOW TO TAKE PART...
• Find a pebble on the beach
• Add it to the sculpture
• Photograph yourselves dropping your pebbles or with the growing sculpture!
If you would like to share a photograph or film of yourselves taking part, please upload HERE and share and tag us on Instagram.
Tag: @messumscreative @messumseast @laurenceedwards.bronze @firstlightfestival
#TheLongWaitLowestoft #MessumsEast #CollectiveMaking #LowestoftBeach
At the end of the summer, the sculpture will be removed from the beach, but it's making will be documented through selected images shown online at www.messumscreative.com and in a project archive to be displayed at Messums East once open, where we would love for you to come and see them.
Participants will be invited to The 'Gathering' closing celebration on the beach, and to see the exhibition when we open.
