Littleford+Adams are Rachael Adams and Robert Littleford.
Ebb+Flow
A video installation about a river. About everything and nothing and hardly about a river at all.
Filmed almost entirely on dash-cam and phone, two artists – Rachael Adams and Robert Littleford – try to capture the natural flow of their unfiltered thought processes, while looking at the landscape of the Lower Ouse Valley.
60mins, 2025
Screening: Ebb+Flow
Creative Living Lab / Marine Workshops, Newhaven, UK
6-8pm, Thursday 30 October
Towner, Eastbourne, UK
11.30am, Saturday 2 August
11.30am, Saturday 5 July
It’s My Apple
Atrium, Marine Workshops, Newhaven, UK
30, 31 October, 1 November
An audio/visual installation about the making of the film Ebb + Flow, which in turn is about the making of a film. Littleford+Adams examine their own creative process in this installation. Interested in a sense of place, the artists provide a frame of reference with which they find their own place the world.
Screening: Flux et Reflux
Dieppe Scène Nationale, France
7.30pm, Saturday 25 October
About Littleford+Adams
Littleford+Adams are Robert Littleford and Rachael Adams, when collaborating, they work in the east side of the port town of Newhaven.
They wander about, listening and watching and often just staring out of windows. They are determined yet relaxed. They follow threads and hunches and trust in gut-feelings and enthusiasm.
Robert Littleford
‘My practice includes painting, sculpture and filmmaking – but mostly drawing: it’s always at the heart of what I do – investigating the relationship between the figure and the landscape.
After graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Illustration, my practice developed: illustrating books and magazines, making ceramics for Paul Smith, designing textiles for Jeff Banks, making sculptures for Virgin Airlines, designing window displays for Harvey Nichols, and working on animated features and TV shows for Cartoon Network.’
Rachael Adams
‘Mostly I’m investigating problems, solving conundrums, figuring out stuff: maybe about belonging, or landscapes, or maybe I’m just collecting evidence to share discoveries. How I reveal the findings turns out to be in lists, or pictures or sounds.
I did a Fine Art degree and an MA in Sequential Art, made a living as a digital + print designer & publisher and work with sound, film, graphics, paint and photography.
Newhaven’s Lower Ouse Valley
A geographical region in East Sussex, England, defined by the River Ouse as it flows towards the sea. The valley is known for its historical significance, including Roman settlements and sites of Neolithic importance. It’s also facing challenges related to climate change, including flooding and coastal erosion.
Meta meta
Sincere and ironic, superficial and deep, screen-based and real-life, fabrication and truth, fact and fiction.
Take two oppositional factors without them cancelling each other out, or landing in the average zone between. Unlike the magnet: magnets exert opposing forces on each other.
Beach Road Project Space
Curated installations in a 10ft x 10ft space in Newhaven, East Sussex.
Robert and Rachael have also curated shows attached to the Edgeland Modern movemnet