Thames Water - Amy Sharrocks 2010

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  Photo: Amy Sharrocks

Come and dip your feet in the fresh green water of the Thames!

Amy Sharrocks is setting up a paddling pool and inviting people to roll up their trousers and wade through the water of the city. Join in as buckets of water are hoisted up over the balustrade and emptied into the pool. Rest your limbs, refresh your feet and feel the silky sediment of the Thames between your toes. Thames Water encourages imaginative thinking around the uses of the river, our access to it and the importance and pleasure of water. This is a joyous artwork for all the family to enjoy, an elegy for a river that we used to be able to touch, wash and swim in.

Thames21, an environmental charity working with communities to improve London's waterways, will be on hand to help you test the quality of the water and provide further information about the general health of the river. Amy Sharrocks is currently making a series of works about how contemporary Londoners connect with the water of their city, re-building a bond that has been straining thin over the centuries. Thames Water helps prepare for Swim the Thames 2012, Amy's planned mass swim from South to North London across the Pool of London, under Tower Bridge to Tower Beach.

Thames Water has been commissioned by home live art as part of A River Enquiry: a series of new artworks created in response to the River Thames.

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