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Sink or Swim: Exhibition by Art for Social Change Collective

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Sink or Swim

Sink or Swim Exhibition by Art for Social Change Collective

The Projection Room, Paignton


Private View: Saturday, 23rd August, 6-8pm

Exhibition Continues: until Tuesday, 26th August 25


Instagram: @art_for_social_change


Sink or Swim is a multidisciplinary exhibition presented by the Art for Social Change collective, held at the Projection Room, Paignton. The show explores urgent issues surrounding marine degradation and the ecological vulnerability of water. Featuring photography, ceramics, glasswork, screenprints, watercolours, digital projection and live performance, the exhibition invites the public to reflect on our evolving, and often endangered relationship with the ocean. 


In the lead-up to the exhibition, local artist Lottie Bolster has been hosting participatory sessions reflecting on fish & chip shops in a speculative future when fish is just a memory. What happens when the fish are gone? Lottie is inviting the public to contribute and share their story either in person at Paignton Library on Tuesday 5th August, 3pm or by email lottie.bolster@gmail.com. 


The Art for Social Change collective brings together artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds who are united by a shared commitment to challenging dominant narratives, provoking social awareness, and fostering connection through creative expression. Formed during the 2021 Artquest Arts for Social Change Salon, the group has since evolved into a supportive network nurturing socially engaged practices.


Sink or Swim marks the collective’s first public exhibition, a convergence of artistic voices working at the intersection of the personal, political and planetary. The works in the show confront fragility, invite reflection, and ask: will we sink or swim? 

Exhibiting artists Lottie Bolster, Julie Light, Katherine Masters, Aishling Muller, Agata Nowak, and Kayleigh Peters. 


Lottie Bolster | Artist and Mental Health Advocate 

Lottie is a multidisciplinary artist whose work challenges (mis)perceptions. 

Lottie uses storytelling to prompt audiences to question the mental frameworks that shape how we see the world. A graduate of Central Saint Martins (MA Art & Science, 2019), she has exhibited in the UK and internationally, including at CERN, Tate Modern, and Somerset House. 

Instagram: @lottie_bolster 


Julie Light | Artist and Sculptor 

Sculptural Explorations of Body and Health 

Julie is a sculptor working primarily with glass to explore human and creature form, health, and hybridity. Her sculptures visualise the intersection of human and non-human bodies, illness, and imagined transformations, asking viewers to reconsider their perceptions of health and vulnerability. 

Instagram: @julielightglass


Katherine Masters | Conceptual Artist 

Coastal Sustainability and the Human Condition 

Katherine examines the natural world’s fragility, focusing on coastal sustainability and environmental responsibility. She explores the relationship between texture and colour while addressing the pressing concerns of ecological change through a multidisciplinary practice. 

Instagram: @katherinemasters.artist 


Aishling Muller | Digital Media & Performance Artist 

Ecological Grief & Inner Transformation 

Irish neurodiverse artist Aishling Muller explores the parallels between environmental collapse and personal metamorphosis. Working with lens-based media and performance, she documents the melting glaciers of Greenland and creates symbolic self-portraits that reflect cycles of loss, resilience, and rebirth. Her work here considers water not just as crisis, but as carrier of memory, emotion, and planetary change. 

Instagram: @aishlingmuller 


Agata Nowak | Cross-Disciplinary Research-Based Artist 

Human and Non Human 

Agata weaves themes of resilience, and belonging into her research-based practice. Working with strands of basalt fiber, she created screen print drawings that echo the silent chemical exchange between oceanic crust and the ocean. Her work brings attention to the agency of matter and the quiet, ongoing exchanges that drive transformation beyond human perception. 

Instagram: @agatanowakdesign 


Kayleigh Peters | Multidisciplinary Artist 

Health, Protest, and Lived Experience 

Kayleigh is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores themes of health, protest, and lived experience. Working across textiles, ceramics, performance and participatory art, she investigates the ways in which craft can serve as a vehicle for storytelling and activism. Her work engages with historical and contemporary narratives, inviting audiences to reflect on issues of care, resilience, and systemic change. 

Instagram: @kayleighpeters_artist


 
 
 

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