Breaking Waves

Artist Residency at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth

October - December 2024

How can we use the landscape to learn about our ocean?

Throughout my artist residency at Aspex, I investigated how our ocean’s vast but hugely significant circulations can be reimagined through creative intervention to bring attention to its life-sustaining importance in regulating global climate.

Where land meets sea, the behaviours of the ocean are felt strongly. Through my art practice, I tapped into Portsmouth’s coastline: its geology, geography, local people and knowledge, to reframe the landscape alongside ocean research. Adverse weather and rising sea levels pose an ongoing threat to the area and there is an increasing urgency to address our relationships with the climate.

As an artist whose work is heavily influenced by scientific data and imagery, I understand the challenges and barriers that may arise when engaging in complex fields of research. I believe art can be a powerful tool to help make science more accessible. Therefore, I experimented with printmaking and extended into tactile sculpture and audiovisual artwork to test the different ways science can be reconstructed through creative practice and activate new perspectives about our place on the planet.