Dr Henry Bond

I am a now-retired Sussex-based former photographer and non-fiction author. You can see my photos that are in the Tate Gallery collection if you look here. And you can look here to read more about my doctoral thesis as was published by MIT.

Art Collection

536 or, in full, The Admiralty Chart 536 Art Collection, is a collection of contemporary art comprising works created by artists residing in, or responding to, the geographical area covered by the Admiralty nautical navigation chart number 536. The chart documents the Strait of Dover and the portion of the English coastline that tracks east from Beachy Head to Dungeness.

The verdant Beachy Head is infamous as the most popular suicide spot in Britain (by number of jumpers from the cliff-top annually). Dungeness beach is known for both the imposing (and distinctly Ballardian) now-defueling Dungeness A & B nuclear power-stations, and the late Derek Jarman's desolate fisherman's lodge Prospect Cottage. The stretch of coast mapped also includes Fairlight Cove, the military site Camp Lydd, and Pevensey Bay.

Artists represented in the collection include: Kristina Alexander, Emily Allchurch, Jamie Atherton, Derek Brown, John Brunsdon, Ruth Bullock, Zoe Childerley, John Dilnot, Joseph Dilnot, Joseph Emilien, Euan Farr, Frank Francis, Tirzah Garwood, Fay Godwin, Mark Godwin, Richard Heslop, John Hambleton Holdcroft, Terry Hulf, Patrick Adam Jones, Victoria Kiff, Marina Kim, Julia García López, Johanna Love, Anne Lydiat, Tim Nathan, Matthew Plummer, Alan Rankle, Eric Ravilious, Margaret Roberts, Philip Sanderson, Mick Sargent, Maxine Simmonds, Luke Sothcott, John Stezaker, Julian Sutherland Beatson, Richard Swann, Jetta-Jay Szymula, Dawn Timmins, Emma Turpin, Alice Walter, Louise Whitham and Gary Willis.

With special thanks to: Jane Lawson, Iona Ramsay, Rob Amstad, Helen Savage and Jaf Yusuf.

You can hover over the image here for hi-res of the chart. To get in touch with the 536 Art Collection please use this email.