Isle of Wight What's On Guide: 2024 Events OnTheWight

The Defenceless Container Free

24 Aug – 10 Sep 2016

Exhibition

Bembridge

High Street
Bembridge

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The Defenceless Container Free

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Defenceless container

New exhibition brings awareness to the impact of overfishing to the local area

The Defenceless Container will open in Bembrdige, Isle of Wight

Renowned photographer, Claudia Legge, to donate profits to marine charity Blue Marine Foundation

Opening times Free exhibition will be open to the public from 1st August to 30th August.

After that, viewing is by appointment only by emailing [email protected].

The new exhibition space, The Defenceless Container, opens to the public on Monday 1st August, created by India Dickinson on the coast of the Isle of Wight. Artists are commissioned annually to create site-specific installations separate from the conventional gallery space.

The disused WWII bunker, located in Bembridge, has been reinstated as an installation space that will use art to communicate environmental issues to a wider public.

This year the exhibition is supporting the Blue Marine Foundation in their Solent Oyster Restoration Project which plans to reseed 10 million oysters into the Solent by 2020. This project will benefit both the marine environment and the Solent communities.

The Solent used to be the largest oyster fishery in Europe, however in 2013 the oyster fishery was closed after fishermen and regulators recorded significantly reduced catches indicating that the oyster stock had collapsed.

The long-term goal of the project is to restore the status of the native oyster population in the Solent which will also improve its overall health and biodiversity.

A single native oyster can filter up to 200 litres of water a day, so by introducing 10 million native oysters, in a year, we can clean potentially clean as much as 730 billion litres of the Solent.

As part of the exhibition, 20 per cent of profits from Claudia Legge’s photographs will be donated to the charity.

Address: Beach road, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, 50°41'42.6"N1°05'23.1”W

Editor's note: We're seeking to confirm opening times, as we visited yesterday (Sat 3 Sept 2016) and it wasn't open.

Open daily from 12pm - 5pm



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