Strawberry Line Cycle is a research and development project to create a new body of location-specific immersive work.

Collaborating with fellow artists, community partners and heritage institutions across the Southwest of England, main partners include Congresbury History Group, The Strawberry Line Society, Somerset Heritage Centre and Halsway Manor National Centre for Folk Arts. This project involves collaboration with community groups in North Somerset and Somerset to reflect on and interpret local heritage.

The Strawberry Line consists of pedestrian and cycle paths constructed by community volunteers since the 1980s, linking Shepton Mallet and Clevedon using the historic, now dysfunctional Cheddar Valley Railway Line tracks. The landscape is thus shaped by its railway legacy and equally by a complex system of drainage canals (Rhynes) and sluices on this Northern part of the Somerset Levels.

Part of the research is conducted in collaboration with folksong specialist and producer Phil Owen. Initial prototypes are being developed to support research focused on creating immersive multimedia art and hybrid community archives centred on memory embedded in landscape. This effort tests how analogue and digital media can be combined to represent memory and voices in rural communities, and how these elements can manifest in physical and digital spaces, either as independent entities or interconnected.

The Strawberry Line Cycle will include film, video projection, sculpture, archive material, and sound installations.