Sara Trillo: Underground Walk

Sunday 8 June
1:30pm-3pm
Please note: We will continue in all weather. No requirements except to come prepared for the weather on the day and to wear comfortable footwear

For this event, Sara Trillo will recount ideas of entering the underland from sources including the mythological, folkloric, literary, and documentary accounts, and will connect these to the geology and ecology of the cemetery site.

Sara Trillo is a visual artist based in East Kent, with a studio in Margate. She studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts and in 2017 became an Associate of Open School East in Margate. She has exhibited widely in the UK and northern Europe, as well as undertaking funded residencies in diverse locations including France, Germany, Cyprus and Turkey.

Sara is one of the commissioned artists for the 2025 Folkestone Triennial “How Lies the Land?” curated by Sorcha Carey (July 19 - October 19 2025). Other recent exhibitions include "Chaleur Humane”, the 2023 Dunkerque Triennale Art et Industrie; "Still and Still Moving", Od Arts Festival Somerset 2023; "Re-Enchanting the Commons", Celsius Projects, Malmö 2023; “Going Underground”, Brewery Tap, Folkestone 2023; "Wasteless 2" at Way Out East, University of East London 2024; “Ground Up” at GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn 2024; “Marling”, collaboration with Fiona Parry for SALT + EARTH, Folkestone 2024; “Alleycumfee”(solo show) at Daphne Oram Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University 2024; “Shadders” at Project 78 Gallery, St Leonards on Sea 2025; and “Clinging On”, Glassworks Studios, London 2025.

Recent commissioned performative walks in 2024 include “Swept Away” for Cement Fields/Whitstable Biennale Archive, “Nether Walk” for “The Making of a Meadow”, RCA/Kent Downs National Landscape, “Denge Ness” for Jarman Now/Manchester Metropolitan University, “Widders Dump” for Seadog Books, and “Walking to Alleycumfee” for Canterbury Christ Church University.

Tickets: FREE, but places are limited so booking is essential here on Eventbrite.

Any questions on accessibility or otherwise, please contact Kim Hart on khart@lambeth.gov.uk

This event is part of the celebrations to mark the completion of a six year National Lottery Heritage Fund project: 'A New Beginning' designed to conserve the Cemetery’s magnificent landscape and architecture, as well as offer new experiences and facilities to increase community use.

You are invited to join us from Friday 30 May through to Sunday 8 June, when the cemetery will be host to a wide range of free events and activities. For some you will need to pre-book, like this one, others you can just turn up.
Please especially join us on Saturday 31 May at 11am for the Grand Re-Opening Ceremony at the Main Entrance.