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Exhibition The Fragile Ocean

Sail Britain End of Season  Group Show, held at St Johns on Bethnal Green and Lumen Callery, London. November 2019.

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Works shown, containing narratives of ocean acidification, sequestration, plastic pollution and climate anxiety, based on observations sailing in Scotland's Western Isles, Summer 2019.

 

  • Ocean Sentinel.

  • Tidal Bloom. Cast glass

  • When Summer is Coming, When Summer is Near. Plastic lemons, Amorphous Carbon - carbonised buttercups, heather and rockpool seaweeds, Netting, Coal, Card

  • The Shifting Western Dayshapes. Folded paper sailing dayshapes marked out with kelp charcoal, maerl (calcified seaweed), bivalve shells, two acrylic forms in the dimensions of Cubesats, netting, carbonised bladderwrack seaweed. 

  • To The Blue Black Lemons of Anxiety. Carbonised and fresh lemons in cafe basket

  • The Long Tide. Concertina sketchbooks, rockpool drawings, maerl (calcified seaweed), Lead Crystal, Carbonised seaweed

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The Shifting Western Dayshapes

Encoded artwork -  Sailing Dayshapes for fishing,,,

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Tidal Bloom Cast & polished glass referencing plastic pollution and jellyfish blooms, a sign of acidifying habitats.

All images ©  Jennie Speirs Grant

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