The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
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Into Ocean & Ice - Artists explore a changing Antarctica
Five artists interpret the remote cool South, taking in Ernest Shackleton’s failed yet epic Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) to the Weddell and Ross seas, and modern-day South Georgia in the South Atlantic Ocean, where the climate crisis has glaciers on the run and biodiversity experts worried
Sometimes Wet, Sometimes Dry
Consider this – a seamless state of being between land, sea, sky. Fluidity, no division. Oneness, nothing for sale, only a continuous state of being, a feeling of connection to the surrounding world. Sometimes land country, sometimes sky country, sometimes sea country.
the band that’s spent four years touring the world by sea
The Arka Kinari – a name formed from the Latin word for vessel, and a Sanskrit name for a half human, half bird musician that guards the tree of life – is a 70-tonne sailing ship that serves as a home, touring vessel, music venue and creative project for Filastine and Nova, who mix Javanese folk with psychedelic synths and percussion.
Custodian-An Exhibition by Andrew Wilson
So we have Andrew’s interpretation of reality rather than reality itself. His feelings and emotions are woven through these pictures like threads in a tapestry. This is not something a documentary photographer does lightly. It throws your work wide open to judgement.
JM Turner with Lamin Fofana : Dark Waters
Although creating work centuries apart, both artists convey the power and politics of the ocean and explore its relationship to capitalism and colonialism.
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