Pupils from Honiton Community College have contributed to an exhibition at Thelma Hulbert Gallery focusing on the climate emergency.

'Acoustics of Resistance' is the first UK showing of a project by international artist Mikhail Karikis. 

Part of the exhibition, 'The Weather Orchestra', is a three-channel video installation featuring musicians performing instruments and noise machines to imitate the sounds of natural phenomena. They include a Baroque wind machine, Latin American ceremonial rain sticks, an ocean drum, a water-phone, a thunder-tube and metal thunder-sheets.

Another part of the exhibition, 'Universe of Solutions', features work by 30 local pupils from the college created during workshops with the artist, showing their imagined solutions to climate change. Visitors are also invited to contribute with their own ideas and solutions.

Cllr Nick Hookway, East Devon's portfolio holder for culture, sport, leisure and tourism, said: "The impact of climate change is possibly the greatest challenge that we will face in our lifetime. It will be up to our young people to face and deal with this so I would like to thank Mikhail Karikis for his thought-provoking work with local schoolchildren considering the many and varied solutions for our future.

"The exhibition is a refreshingly uplifting experience, just the thing to blow away the winter blues!"

Marie-Claire Jefferies, vice-principal of Honiton Community College, said: "Thank you so much for making these workshops happen. It was an amazing opportunity for our pupils and hopefully we have convinced a few of them to pursue a career in the arts!"

Family art activities include linked to the exhibition include a half-term workshop with animator Isgard Wild, creating animations for a film inspiring others to be climate-positive.

Mikhail Karikis: Acoustics of Resistance opened on January 13 and runs until March 9. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm.