An exhibition featuring film, songs, sculptures, and costumes inspired by vraicking — Jersey’s seaweed tradition and Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Vraiqu’sie is a collaborative, artist-led project by six artists — Karen Le Roy Harris, Natasha Dettman, Margarida Lourenco-Olivier, Esther Rose Parkes, Kerry-Jane Warner, and Blessed Ndlovu — produced by The Moving Arts Collective. Presented in partnership with Jersey Heritage, the project reimagines vraicking, the traditional gathering of seaweed, as a shared act of care between land, sea, creatures, and people.

The artists researched the intertidal landscape through shore walks, archive visits, and conversations with foragers, marine biologists, and ethnobotanists. They explored seaweed colours, textures, and seasonal growth, learned their Jèrriais names, and considered the labour, rhythm, and ceremony of traditional vraicking.

These encounters inspired an immersive film capturing a procession along old vraicking paths at Seymour Tower. Performers wear sculptural costumes made from willow and collected seaweeds, bringing the intertidal landscape to life. The film features new songs in Jèrriais, connecting language, movement, and memory. In Vraiqu’sie, seaweed becomes both material and metaphor—carrying heritage, shaping the body, and reconnecting us to the island’s language, labour, and landscapes.

Supported By
The Barreau Art Scholarship - Société Jersiaise | Jersey Heritage | Jersey Community Foundation (with funds from the Channel Islands Lottery) | Government of Jersey - Creative Island Partnership | Aspiring Jersey Island Geopark

Visitor Information
Exhibition Dates: 5 April – 1 November 2026
Opening Hours: 5 April – 24 October: 10:00 – 17:30 | 25 October – 1 November: 10:00 – 16:00
Location: Lé Châté Lîzabé - Elizabeth Castle, Jersey
Entry: Castle admission fees apply. For visitor info, see Elizabeth Castle
Further Project Info & Events: Vraiqu’sie – The Moving Arts Collective