OFFSHORE EXHIBITION

The following exhibition in Humber OFFSHORE part of the UK City of Culture 2017 festival, was the first joint exhibition between the city's Ferens Art Gallery and Maritime Museum. Works include a series of poems inspired by the Humber Estuary and a film about the local fishing industry. One performance features a dancer with a latex costume which changes colour in response to data received from coral at Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

The work explores the sea and examines the many contrasting ways that the sea has shaped our culture, our imaginations and our physical existence through mythical sea monsters, superstition and seaside traditions as well as trade and travel. the exhibition explored how our treatment of the sea threatens its health: climate change, coral bleaching, toxic waste and flooding are some of the issues that artists explore through their work.

China Miéville explored the ocean depths of Bermuda in a submersible to write an essay, and artist Phil Coy joined a fishing boat out of Bridlington Harbour to create a new film.

What I learnt from it most was the variety of approaches to creating environmentally inspired art. Also that subtlety can be a better way rather than hitting an audience over the head with the issue and argument as I can sometimes do.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-39461175