A new climate exhibition will be taking place at the Thelma Hulbert Glarry in Honiton.

TerraOceanus showcases artist Corinna Wagner’s photography and artwork, picturing ruination and recovery in both built and natural environments.

Five years of research, travel and artistic collaboration by Professor Corinna Wagner, exploring our relationship to rivers, seas and the lands at their edges is captured in a new solo exhibition at Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG).

The exhibition was launched in The Great Big Green Week which aims to inspire UK communities to tackle climate change and protect nature.

Corinna Wagner said: "This is a culmination of five years of travel, writing, and collaboration with other artists and academics on issues around environment, climate, ruins, memory and loss. My work speaks of ‘solastalgia’: sadness and anxiety about environmental damage to homes, land, rivers and seas. People across the globe are experiencing psychological and social effects – as well as the material realities – of rising sea levels, melting glaciers, drought and fire.

My hope is that people will be inspired to reflect deeply about how we occupy space now and how we might in the future. We should question how words like ‘progress’ and ‘development’ are deployed. And I hope that the artwork might encourage people to see the importance of in-between spaces, of abandoned things, edgelands, and wild places.

The exhibition was opened by Richard Foord MP who said : "It is a privilege to open the TerraOceanus exhibition today. Corinna Wagner is so very multi-talented and I thoroughly enjoyed her thought-provoking photography and poetry. 

"We are so lucky to have a gallery like THG in Honiton which hosts the kind of exhibitions that one would normally have to travel to faraway cities to see. I recommend it."

THG is calling for work from 16-25 years olds for the new COS gallery space. The work should reflect the themes of environmentalism, realism and the body, in any medium including photography and creative writing. Work should be brought to the gallery by 1 July.

A series of supporting events, including the screening of the film COTIDAL by Devon artist Tania Kovats, will run alongside the exhibition.

A full programme of events can be found on the Thelma Hulbert Gallery website here thelmahulbert.com

Corinna Wagner: TerraOceanus continues until 12 August, Tuesday - Saturday, 10 - 5.
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell St, Honiton EX14 1LX, 01404 45006
For more information and to book events, visit thelmahulbert.com