Underwater Meadows

Underwater Meadows evokes the incredible seagrass and seaweed meadows of south west England. After Sherwood’s experiences swimming among these incredible ecosystems, bewitched by the light and movement under the water surface, she created Underwater Meadows. A hybrid between light art and sculpture the work brings the colours of the under water world above the surface and bathes the exhibition space in ocean inspired light.

Made using recycled ocean and rural plastic waste the sculpture helps protect the environment by permanently removing this damaging material from the natural world.

This sculpture was fabricated by Ocean Plastic Technologies, a company helping to find solutions 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.