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British artist Tania Kovats makes drawings, sculpture, installations and large-scale time-based projects exploring our experience and understanding of landscape. She is best known for Tree (2009), a permanent installation for the Natural History Museum in London; and Rivers, an outdoor sculpture in the landscape of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh. This new exhibition focused on her fascination with the sea.

A highlight of the exhibition was All the Sea, an ambitious new work which presented water from all the world’s seas, collected with the help of a global network of people drawn in by the idea of bringing all the waters of the world to one place. It was joined by new and existing work all of which had to do in some way with the sea. Sculptures referencing cliff formations; a machine that mimicked the formation of mountains; a sculpture in the form of a reef of proliferating barnacles; a re-orientation of the world in favour of the ocean drawn on a collection of obsolete atlases; a work exploring what happens when two or more seas meet and a selection of drawings made of and with seawater combined in an evocative presentation of the impact of the sea.

Exhibition supported by Louis Vuitton.

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Listen to Tania Kovats: Artist’s Talk

Listen to Tania Kovats: ‘Casting Nets’ Seminar with Fiona Bradley, Nicholas Alfrey, Penelope Curtis, Philip Hoare and Stephanie Straine

Images: Ruth Clark