For the Love of Seagrass! - an open conversation

Come and join in a discussion with Gill, Megan from the Blue Meadows Project and Grace Clifford from the Ocean Conservation Trust discussing how Gill’s residency art pieces explore the entanglement of humans with marine life. Find out about Torbay’s special sea dwellers, how Gill uses her creativity to help raise awareness of seagrass conservation and what we can all do to protect our precious resource.

Drinks and snacks will be provided.

Spaces limited to 10. Turn up on the day or book your free place to avoid disappointment.

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.