Meet the Artist - Drop In with Geopark Residency Artist Gill Melling

Come and drop in for a drink and a chat with resident artist Gill Melling to find out how her unique artwork explores Torbay Seagrass, a vital protector of our eco system, and the role we all have to play in protecting it.

About Gill's Residency

Cultural Entanglements in Marine Environments

Artist Gill Melling continues her exploration of the human impact and reliance on marine biodiversity, through the lens of communities and environments of the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark. Her resultant residency art series will evolve through local conversations and observations, creating mixed media “entanglements” combining reclaimed, “natural” and human processed materials.

The Geopark designation offers a unique canvas, drawing together a geography that includes Marine Conservation Zones with their precious seagrass beds, that must share space with a fishing heritage that includes one of the largest fisheries in the country, a leisure industry, and local residents, all reliant on these same natural resources. All of this against a backdrop of UN Sustainable Development Goals that the world as a whole struggles to achieve, and a global ecosystem dependent on local conservation.

About the Geopark Residency Programme

The Geopark Artist Residency programme is a series of artist residencies delivered by Artizan Collective in partnership with Torre Abbey and the English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark, that aims to reveal narratives about our Geopark home through the creation of four new collections of work produced by Devon based visual artists and creative professionals.

For more informaiton on Gill's residency visit here and or to find out more about the Geopark Residency Programme visit here.