Global awareness of the crisis of our rivers and seas is reaching crisis points. To draw attention to this, The Wilderness Art Collective and the Wilderness Foundation UK are pleased to announce their charitable collaboration, jointly presenting art exhibition and a speaker event and hosted at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) this September.
Waterlines, an exploration of water and the environment through art
The Wilderness Art Collective presents WATERLINES, an exhibition celebrating water and our relationship with it. The Wilderness Art Collective is a non-profit group of creatives, artists, explorers, and environmentalists whose work discusses the natural world. WATERLINES continues a conversation started in 2019 with our first exhibition, LANDLINES, which explored the Landscape. This new exhibition aims to deepen our understanding of water’s significance as an essential life force and to engage with it in new, thought-provoking ways.
The exhibition will be held at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), from 18th – 28th of September 2024 (Mon – Sat: 10am – 5pm, Sun: 11am – 4pm)
Private View 18th September 2024 from 5pm – 8pm
‘Waterlines’ showcases the work of 19 artists from the Wilderness Art Collective.
A multidisciplinary exhibition, Waterlines, explores the profound relationship between water and life. It features works that capture the essence of rivers, the tragedy of a mass whale stranding, the delicate flow of water down tree trunks, and the dual nature of the English Channel as both barrier and bridge. The exhibition also reflects on swims off the Sussex coast, the walking routes of London’s lost rivers, and the movements of wind and water. Confronting the realities of climate change, Waterlines reveals the melting of ice and the presence of microplastic fibres in the deep sea, highlighting the urgent challenges we face while emphasising the vital currents that connect all life.
Collective artists are multi-disciplined, and this will be reflected in the exhibition, with an exciting mix of practices for visitors to see with painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, film and installations.
“Humanity cannot continue to disregard the importance and respect of water in all its forms for our own survival!”
Exhibiting artist – Catalina Christensen
“Listening to the wind and the water, I feel the connection with nature’s infinite and intangible beauty”
Exhibiting artist – Geraldine van Heemstra
“Perhaps you never get to know a river fully, but walking alongside it, sometimes at the same pace as the water, and listening to people who know it well and the birds who dwell with it, gives a sense of its essence”
Exhibiting artists – Somewhere-nowhere – Rob and Harriet Fraser
“At the edge of the sea, where the land meets the water, two worlds converge. Here, in the space between tides, humans and whales met. In this fleeting moment of connection, the boundaries between our species blurred, and we are reminded that we share the same earth, the same breath, the same fate.”
Exhibiting artist – Sam Gare
“I am always drawn to the language of nature and the marks left behind by the elements. Using steel to record the water and wind I am able to facilitate the tide’s expression manifesting as alluvial topography.”
Exhibiting artist – Polly Bennett