Art Work Exeter presents an exploration of Exeter’s quayside including a community research project, an exhibition at Exeter Custom House and the recreation and filming of scenes from a 1970s BBC television drama that was made on location at the quay.
Artist Richard Dedemenici, whose Redux project has been recreating iconic moments from famous films and television series since 2013, will work with volunteers to restage scenes from The Onedin Line that used Exeter quayside as a setting.
The BBC series ran for nine years from 1971, depicting the rise of a fictional shipping line based in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886. Scenes were filmed in Dartmouth and Falmouth as well as at Exeter quay.
Filming of The Onedin Line at Exeter quay. Photo by Alan Saunders.
Art Work Exeter is also collaborating with research co-ordinator Bea Moyes to enable a group of community researchers to identify and document sites, visit archives and gather resources to track changes that have taken place at the quayside from its decline in the 1860s to the 1970s, when The Onedin Line was filmed.
The group’s findings will be exhibited at Exeter Custom House as part of this year’s Heritage Open Days in the city.
The recreation and filming of scenes from The Onedin Line will take place from Friday 8 to Monday 11 September 2023 at Exeter quay. A resulting film, The Real Onedin Line Redux, will be screened on Saturday 23 September at the quayside transit shed.
The community research group exhibition will take place from Friday 8 to Sunday 17 September at Exeter Custom House.
For more information visit the Art Work Exeter website. To get involved in The Real Onedin Line Redux as a performer email realonedinline@gmail.com including your name, height and a photo.
