VOID FRACTION - ATmosphere

limestone dust boats, Menai Bridge model fragments, mussel shells, poems from ‘Do I Look Like an Atmosphere’
Zoë Skoulding, Mari Rose Pritchard & Julie Upmeyer
July 2026
Ynys Tysilio / Church Island, Menai Bridge, Wales

Performance and poetry in response to the limestone of the Menai Bridge and its wider ecological connections. As part of the Gŵyl Tysilio Festival 2026

limestone dust
held together just long enough
to become a fleet
crossing uncertain water
where not every journey
reached its destination

Void Fraction is an ongoing collaboration between artists Mari Rose Pritchard and Julie Upmeyer, an artistic exploration of limestone, limestone quarries and their many byproducts. Here, they highlight limestone as the raw material of the Menai Suspension Bridge through sculpture and performance presented alongside poems from Zoë Skoulding's book Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?, which traces limestone through castle walls, mussel shells and interconnected lives of the north Wales coast.
With thanks to Friends of Church Island and Menai Heritage for research material and the opportunity to work in this marvellous location.