OUR RIVERBED 

4K Video & Audio. Installation: Mixed Media Installation: Wire, Cardboard, Waxed Craft Paper. 2025

 

The study of the interrelationship between people and the RIVERBED: its wide variety of wildlife but also the negative impact of climate change. This group exhibition features works by both individual artworks by 6 Collective Artists and an immersive large-scale participation installation. The traditional wooden floor of the space is transformed, and the audience walk through the gallery and over steppingstones, a reference to the Isleworth Ait, a London Wildlife Trust nature reserve and island. Additionally, visitors “immerse themselves in the riverbed experience”, by participating in workshops and creating artwork they can add to the installation. Drawing on the research and studies from environmental charity Thames21. OUR RIVERBED becomes a place to learn about the different aspects of the river and the way climate change has negatively affected the river over time.

 

CREATIVE WORKSHOPS run throughout the exhibition and are designed to connect viewers to OUR RIVERBED installation. Participants create artwork using different methods; painting, printmaking and ceramics, to represent the materials such as tidal silt and mud, stones, rocks, debris, the wildlife, rubbish, and other things you might find on the riverbed. 

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OUR RIVERBED INSTALLATION is a large-scale site-specific work based on a section of the River Thames near the Isleworth Ait, a London Wildlife Trust nature reserve and island. The artists have created work on site: making prints, drawings, and ceramics by the river and contributing artworks will be made during the exhibition through a series of workshops. OUR RIVERBED will organically evolve throughout the week.