Turning the Tide: water as medicine
We explore water’s role in sustaining health for our global and community futures: a multi-media enquiry and collaboration between arts and science, evidence and practice, medicine and ecology.
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Nature with us, not nature for us…
Water Elemental: A call to change mind-sets and embrace inter-being for planetary health

The Rehearsal
Water Elemental: Adrift between life and death…Flow-lake, Clevedon

Paper Boats
Water Elemental: Blurring the lines – elderberry ink on skin

An ode to kidneys
Water Elemental: A hard-won appreciation of our internal waterways

Water Body
Water Elemental: Embodied Ecology

Commonplace and strange…
Water Elemental: A mesmerising visual encounter through shallow waters

Nature’s Fractals
Water Elemental: Close observations give rise to geometric interpretations of the River Frome

Source to Sea and Back
Water Elemental: A kaleidoscope of insights around water through image and poetry

Monochrome Seascape
Water Elemental: a celebration of the ever-changing sea, its inspiring non-conformity and source of treasured family memories

Azure Nights
Water Elemental: Water’s diverse presence expressed through a lyrical sweep of forms and environments

Childhood Adventures
Water Elemental: Treasured memories of spontaneity and connection inspire thoughts around living holistically

You never not-belonged
Water Elemental: Intertwined ancestral and experiential perspectives of ‘River’ through poetry, song and narrative.

Moon, tides, and cycles
Water Under Pressure: Lived experience of wellness being interminably linked to medication cycles

Wildlife Wanes
Water Under Pressure: Conflicts within healthcare around medications and cumulative planetary harm

Water Shame
Water Under Pressure: Mounting inequalities of access to clean water and the healthcare implications laid bare

For my baby, only tears
Water Under Pressure: The devastating impact of lack of access to safe water and sanitation for pregnant women and mothers globally

A Tale of 3 Rivers
Water Under Pressure: The progressive degradation of our rivers and threat to biodiversity

And So I Watch You From Afar
Water Under Pressure: Interconnectedness and fragility fuse in these Cyanotype prints

Thin blue line wrapped around the world
Water Under Pressure: A global, inter-species perspective invites us to honour our shared seas

Part the Ocean
Water Under Pressure: Chemical engineers and artists co-research ways to communicate the challenges and developments around water purification

Water Welcomes your Quest..ion
Water and Well-Being: The wealth of ways we can respect, protect and relish the roles water plays in our lives.

Tuning In to Tune Out
Water and Well-Being: Between floating and submergence…holistic re-calibration

Cruising while Fishing
Water and Well-Being: The time-honoured, steadfast work of knowing the waters and fishing for a livelihood

Wave Kinetics
Water and Well-Being: Embodied perspectives following a voyage on the tall ship Tenacious inspire 3-dimensional forms.

Blue Health Smiles
Water and Well-Being: A multi-sensory, inter-species waterside account

At Sea with Disability and Blue Health
Water and Well-Being: Water-based experiential student placements

Each Drop
Water and Well-Being: Water as a connecting and unifying force

The Ripple Effect
Water and Well-Being: Participant experiences at the River Avon drawing on art, archaeology and ecology.

A Deep Dive into SW!M 75
Water and Well-Being: NHS staff in Weston-Super-Mare talk about the role of water in their lives

Almost Synchro Meets Bollywood
Water and Well-Being: Tackling inequalities and reducing social isolation in end-of-life care and bereavement.

Coastal Tonic
Water and Well-Being: Senses and the Coast – drawing on historical attitudes to healthcare

Embodied, contemplative beach labyrinth rituals
Water and Well-Being: Healing depression, lonliness, grief and anxiety
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