Travelling artwork to honour 200 years of the RNLI

The programme's first location was Whitstable

An art programme that is touring around England and celebrating 200 years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is starting and finishing in Kent.

Sea Like a Mirror is a touring programme that is setting up in six lifeboat station towns throughout May and June.

It started in Whitstable and travels to Cromer in Norfolk, Barrow-in Furness in Cumbria, Weston-super-Mare in Somerset and Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire before finishing in Gravesend.

At the heart of the programme is a newly-commissioned film called White Horses by Ivan Morison.

The art was produced through a series of visits to lifeboat stations and seaside towns and in collaboration with oyster fishers, windfarm technicians and wild swimmers.

The travelling work, housed within a custom-made sculptural tent, will be installed on seafronts, projected on to a screen and accompanied with live music from local musicians.

In each location White Horses will be joined by a series of commissions by local artists.

The RNLI was created at a meeting in London in 1824.