Shifting Waterscapes: a new exhibition of multidisciplinary artwork by Ellen Wiles, CREWW artist-in-residence and Storying Water project lead, and Arun Sood, exploring watery ecologies and environmental change is on at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton: 17 January – 28 February 2026.
Water is life – and yet, at a time of rapid environmental change, it has never been more precious and precarious. This exhibition delves into a series of distinctive watery places through multidisciplinary works involving sound, narrative, fiction, moving image, visual art, and other mixed media, produced in collaboration with more-than-human beings.
The works explore the experiential wonderment of waterscapes, their affective and sensory qualities and their positive effects on wellbeing, while also addressing issues of water resilience and nature restoration, and reflecting on themes of movement and memory, degradation and renewal, and relationships between human and more-than-human lives in our environments.
Featured waterscapes range from wetlands, rivers and lakes to tidal islands, and from the South West of England to the Northern Isles of Scotland. Each work has been created in response to a specific site: Otterhead Lakes (Blackdown Hills); Porlock Vale (Exmoor); Countess Wear (Exeter); and the tidal island of Vallay (The Outer Hebrides). All provoke questions around the entanglements between these places and their inhabitants, histories, ecologies, and imagined futures.
Fore more details visit the gallery website.