Jo Chapman

Alkerden Hub, Whitecliffe, Ebbsfleet

Currently in production, due to be installed 2027

Architects: HTA Design

Public Art Consultants: FrancisKnight Consultants

A significant permanent artwork for the atrium space of the new community hub, read more about the project here Alkerden Hub

COMMUNITY ENGAGMENT FOR THE PUBLIC ART PROJECT

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE EBBSFLEET DESIGN GROUP: SATURDAY 5TH JULY 2025, CASTLE HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE, SATURDAY 26TH JULY 2025, CHURCH ROAD HALL, SWANSCOMBE

HERITAGE WALK OCTOBER 2025

AUTUMN 2025, WALK + DRAW 30TH NOVEMBER 2025

2026 DATES TO BE CONFIRMED

CHALK

Between the end of the Jurassic and the beginning of the Tertiary Era a great amount of chalk was formed. It was such a striking episode that the whole period was called the Cretaceous Age. Minute and innumerable oceanic animals called foraminifera, floating about near the surface of the sea, sunk to the bottom when dead, and then accumulated in a slowly solidifying ooze. We call the resultant accumulation Chalk. If we examine a handful of it under a microscope we find that it consists of the casing of the foraminifera – really shells of the most delicate and beautiful design, six thousand to a square inch.

In view of the fact that such deposits are only found today at a depth of about twelve thousand feet, it would seem that this Dorset hill was once in the abysses of the sea whose surface flowed where the low flying clouds float now. We approach the white cliffs of Dover, and gaze upward at the seeming solid shows of earth and rock. It is well to realise the reality, that this too is water or chiefly water in another style, and that upon the backs of innumerable urchins of the sea our history is stayed.'

QUOTE FROM - THE WORM FORGIVES THE PLOW BY JOHN STEWART COLLIS