Simon Perry sits down for a conversation with internationally renowned sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor to find out more about his work and the planned project for Sandown.

OnTheWight in conversation with artist Tommy Brentnall at the No Ordinary Town exhibition at Quay Arts in November 2025. Tommy discusses his exhibition, which explores the future of Sandown through a collaboration with Boojum and Snark. The project involved a month-long residency, workshops, and community engagement. Tommy’s work features pastel drawings of boats and futuristic characters, inspired by Sandown’s culture and environmental concerns. He envisions a future where humans coexist with rewilded environments and non-human democracy. The exhibition also includes […]

In 2025 Teresa Grimaldi held an artist residency at Boojum & Snark, exploring the strange story of All Colours Sam the Sandown Clown. To bring this UFO-folklore to life, Teresa co-created a giant puppet with the community that took part in the Sandown Carnival. She also created a wonderfully strange installation called ‘The Windowless Hut’ that could only be seen from a peephole. Along with the help of her fellow investigator, Tracy Mikich, Teresa created a comprehensive evidence board to set out […]

OnTheWight chats with writer Anmarie Bowler, and artist Tommy Brentnall about their collaboration for The Sandown Tarot, A Tool for Survival. The deck of tarot 24 cards “provide a compelling lens through which to explore Sandown and its future” and was one of the final Sandown Rocks projects supported by Arts Council England.

In the summer of 2025, artist Tommy Brentnall held an artist’s residency at Boojum&Snark. Over several weeks he invited members of the public to workshops and informal discussions to share their thoughts and views on the future of Sandown. The residency was part of the year-long Sandown Rocks Project. The outcome of the residency forms an exhibition at Boojum and Snark during October 2025, which moves to Quay Arts Centre in November 2025. We sat down with Tommy to find […]

OnTheWight speaks with geologist, Martin Simpson, to hear more about his and Dr Bruce Denness’s theory about what is happening geologically on the start of Newport Road, Ventnor, known locally as ‘the graben’. As far back as the 1980s, the graben structure on Newport Road, Ventnor was thought to be the result of a geological fault opening up at the crest of the Ventnor landslide. After 18 months of monitoring and research, Martin Simpson and Dr Bruce Denness have come […]

OnTheWight spoke with Graham Horton, Deputy Director at Natural England, at the launch of the Isle of Wight’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) in May 2025. Graham emphasised the importance of community involvement and low-cost interventions and praised the Isle of Wight’s exemplary strategy, noting its clear priorities and strong community engagement.