The Seagrass Walk

Four sculptures filled with the colours and shapes of the ocean, framed in black, bathe the space in light. Inspired in equal measure by the colours and shapes of waves, seagrass meadows and the tanks at the National Marine Aquarium, this series of light art sculptures form part of The Seagrass Walk. Using recycled plastics these pieces evoke the experience of being underwater, while simultaneously helping to remove plastic from our oceans through art.

These sculptures were fabricated by Ocean Plastic Technologies, a company helping to find a solution to plastic waste by rethinking recycling. OPT reclaim ocean-bound and waste plastic in rural communities in South Africa, offering unemployed women the opportunity to generate sustainable incomes by running plastic waste collection points. This plastic is then processed and sold into the existing supply chain to be remanufactured into new products. As a result, Ocean Plastic Technologies create a circular economy that will help our waterways, oceans and ultimately our planet to recover.