The Cairns Institute, James Cook University 2018
The exhibition brings James Cook University researchers in the arts and marine sciences together with community activists to share a sense of urgency about the need for human behavioural change as plastic pollution dramatically impacts the ecologies of ocean habitats.
Participants: Barbara Dover, Robyn Glade-Wright, Mark Hamann, Mia Hoogenboom, Helen Ramoutsaki, Bennett Walker, Matt Wheldon
Arctic chill
Found plastic debris washed up on
north Queensland beaches, resin, drinking glasses
7 x
20 x variable cm
Arctic chill (detail)
Found plastic debris
washed up on north Queensland beaches, resin, drinking
glasses
7 x 20 x variable cm
The Sea Around Us
Found plastic debris washed up
on north Queensland beaches, glass fish bowls
58 x 70 x
20 cm
Plasticky sea urchin 1
Found plastic packaging
tags washed up on north Queensland beaches, metal, glue
55
x 30 x 55 cm
Marine bloom
Found plastic thongs washed up on
north Queensland beaches, found fishing rods, found metal
stand
220 x 175 x 175 cm
No more
Found marine charts
125 x 95 cm
Images Michael Marzik and Epic Media