A NEW thought-provoking exhibition featuring striking images of the Solway Firth is now open at The Standard building.
‘Into The Oceanic: Conversation With Our Ocean’ is the first exhibition to be staged at community-owned Dumfries High Street building.
Described as an environmental project engendering hope, it highlights how the ocean holds solutions to help tackle the climate emergency.
And the invaluable role that kelp has to play has been brought to life by pupils from Dalbeattie High School as they learned all about its properties.
The initiative has been brought to the region as part of a collaboration involving Kirkcudbright-based EcoArt, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Creative Scotland and The Standard’s owners, Midsteeple Quarter.
Fife-based artists and film makers Elizabeth Ogilvie, Robert Page and Katie Fowlie worked with S1 and S2 pupils at Dalbeattie to highlight blue carbon and the importance of kelp which – together with plankton – comprise roughly half the organic matter on Earth, and produce about half of the planet’s oxygen.
She said: “Kelp’s amazing. The work we’ve done with the pupils has helped to highlight that by creating things with it – and showing how art and science work together.
“The school was brilliant and the children were a joy to work with. This is a really exciting project to be involved with.”
The exhibition will be open until Saturday, for more information about the exhibition visit: www.midsteeplequarter.org.
