Created for Wetlands Unravelled, a commissioned group exhibition at the London Wetland Centre, That Sinking Feeling responds to the tensions between conservation, climate change, and human vulnerability.

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The wetland centre operates as a carefully maintained oasis—an environment where water, wildlife, and landscape appear controlled, ordered, and protected. Yet beyond its boundaries, coastlines shift, floodwaters rise, and entire communities face the instability of living with an increasingly unpredictable climate.

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This work focuses on the relationship between human habitation and rising sea levels. Using the centre’s regulated waterline as a fixed point of reference, a series of sculptural interventions emerge from the water at varying heights, marking current high-tide statistics and their direct connection to vulnerable communities across the world.

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What is absent from the landscape becomes impossible to ignore: flood, erosion, displacement, and the quiet violence of environmental change.

That Sinking Feeling asks viewers to confront the reality that water does not recognise borders, ownership, or permanence.

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Change is already happening.

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Photography by Julian Abrams / Paul Samuel White