The historic Govan Graving Docks are to sing out with bells and voice as a Glasgow artist looks to transform them into a work of art.

Nic Green is creating the performance art piece TURN as part of Doors Open Day - but she needs women from Govan to help her.

It will be the first time the Graving Docks open to the public and TURN will see music and spoken word performed.

Nic said: "I moved on to a boat on the River Clyde and became really interested with the relationships people have with this river in this city.

"I started to work in Govan, particularly with GalGael [a community project that builds and sails traditional boats], and saw how people have such a strong connection to the place.

"I couldn't get it out of my head that I wanted to do something there - and so TURN began to form in my head."

Nic needs women with September birthdays to share their stories and their idea of what "turning" means to them.

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Their voices will be recorded and transmitted live from the docks to the audience via FM receivers.

Artist Nic hopes women from all walks of life will come forward, particularly those whose birthdays match the performance dates of September 1, 16 and 30.

The dates were chosen because they fit the lunar and tidal cycles of new moon, full moon and the final day of the moon's cycle.

The 33-year-old said: "I'm looking for women to tell their stories of a time of turning in their own lives - whether that's turning their back on something or turning over a new leaf or turning a corner.

"We want a diversity of experience and if they are from Govan itself, that would thrill us to bits."

Another artist on the project has built a computer that can pick up rising and falling of the tides.

Nic has worked with local people to cast bells - which each have a different inscription chosen by the community group they were made for - and these will hang around the Graving Docks.

When the computer picks up the tidal flow, it will send signal to ring the bells, which will happen throughout September.

Nic is also forming a choir to perform a piece of music written for the occasion and is calling for performers - who don't need any previous experience - to get involved.

Graving is a technique used to coat the bottom of boats with pitch to make them watertight.

Govan Graving Docks were built between 1869 and 1875 by the Clyde Navigation Trust to patch up ships below the waterline.

Boats sailed into the docks before a metal barrier slid into place behind them and the water was pumped back into the Clyde to make a dry space for the work to take place.

More than 500 people worked at the docks; painters, shipwrights, carpenters and men who fired lead shot at the hulls to remove barnacles.

It closed in 1988 and has since been allowed to grow derelict, plans to redevelop it into upmarket flats never coming to fruition.

Anyone who would like to become involved should email contact@nicgreen.org.uk