The ONCA Gallery
14 St George's Place
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 4GB
England
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ONCA aims to integrate art with environmental conservation. We do this by telling stories, using art from all disciplines to think about our relationship with the natural world. We work with local and national conservation projects, giving artists a vehicle and a forum through which to create, display and sell art inspired by conservation. This art is on show to the public at the ONCA Gallery in Brighton, raising awareness and funds for the projects. We also run creative courses for young people and adults, which open environmental dialogue and stimulate artistic inspiration through the current project theme.
Venue Type:
Gallery
Making Tracks
We all make paths. Our lives carve seen and unseen routes through the landscape and these are a part of who we are. Animals do the same. This exhibition is about exploring the routes that exist all around us. Migratory, instinctive or idle, through air, land or water, moving forward or backward – where have they been, where do they go, and how shall they lead us?
‘Making Tracks’ is a collaborative exhibition in association with the Sussex Wildlife Trust, raising awareness and funds for local animal pathways.
Suitable for
Admission
Free, but donations welcome
Inorganic
Plastic is a part of our culture. We use it and we throw it away. And then it comes back. It is in the flow of the rivers, the swells of the ocean
it has been ingested into the food chain and released into the atmosphere. In many ways it has enhanced our lives, but in the world’s hidden places plastic is accumulating. INorganic is a collaborative exhibition about how plastic and the organic collide. How do we, how do artists, and how does the wild world around us, deal with this collision?
Suitable for
Admission
Free, but donations welcome
Our Time In Ice
WELCOME to OUR TIME IN ICE, a collaborative art project exploring creative responses to the changing Arctic. Profits support the Uummannaq Children’s Home in Greenland. In collaboration with Cape Farewell and The Arctic Circle.
The Arctic is made up of layers – layers of ice that can store and preserve, destroy and deconstruct. These layers are now melting. This summer, sea ice reached record lows and as the Arctic disappears into sea and air, so do the frozen memories that have been buried within. Climate change may seem like words and figures, but in the north our impact on this planet is evident. Politicians debate about drilling permissions and frontline environmental organisations battle to preserve threatened species, but the vast arctic expanses are no longer certain. To some extent, it is through their collapse that we can time our own future. Scientists research, activists fight, and we call to artists to respond. The massive ice sheets are a part of who we are, so how should art represent their transformation? OUR TIME IN ICE is both a challenge and a question, inspired by frozen layers drilled, discovered, and lost. In what ways can we explore these layers? How do we come to terms with what has gone and help to preserve what remains?
Suitable for
- Any age
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The ONCA Gallery
14 St George's Place
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 4GB
England
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