Waterlines, an exploration of water and the environment through art at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Wednesday 18th - Saturday 28th September 2024
Monday to Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 1am - 4pm
Private View (by invitation only) Wednesday 18th September 5-8pm

“I’ve always been drawn to water for the way it brings together light, life and movement. It’s both challenging and freeing to work from an essentially invisible subject”  Exhibiting artist, Louisa Burnett-Hall

WATERLINES is an art exhibition curated by The Wilderness Art Collective, featuring works from its talented artists, in support of The Wilderness Foundation UK. The Wilderness Art Collective is a non-profit organization comprising creatives, artists, explorers, and environmentalists dedicated to discussing the natural world through their art. WATERLINES builds on the dialogue initiated in their 2019 exhibition LANDLINES, which focused on landscapes. This latest exhibition presents thought-provoking pieces inspired by the artists' personal connections to water and the crucial conversations surrounding its conservation.

Geraldine Van Heemstra

Exhibiting Artists

This years exhibiting artists are:

  1. Catalina Christensen - ABOUT — CATALINA'S STUDIO (catalinachristensen.com)

  2. Catherine Greenwood - Etchings | Catherine Greenwood - Fine Artist, Printmaker. | Forest Row

  3. Clare Dudeney - Clare Dudeney

  4. Eva Ullrich -EVA ULLRICH

  5. Felicity Flutter - Home (felicity-flutter.co.uk)

  6. Geraldine van Heemstra - Geraldine van Heemstra

  7. Hannah Scott -HANNAH SCOTT - Art, science + environment

  8. Jyoti Bharwani - Jyoti Bharwani | Artiq

  9. Laura Melissa Williams - Home (lauramelissawilliams.com)

  10. Louisa Burnett-Hall - Louisa Burnett-Hall (louisaburnetthall.com

  11. Louisa Crispin - Louisa Crispin - Home (louisacrispinart.co.uk)

  12. Lucinda Devenish - Lucy Devenish

  13. Luke M Walker - Luke M Walker

  14. Sam Gare - Sam Gare | North Harris Studio

  15. Sax Impey -Sax Impey

  16. Somewhere-nowhere - Rob and Harriet Fraser - Who we are - Somewhere Nowhere (somewhere-nowhere.com)

  17. Stephen Bennett - Works — SRG Bennett

  18. Polly Bennett - POLBEN's Pigment | pollybennett

  19. Wanlin Chang - Wan Lin Chang | wanlinchang

“Perhaps you never get to know a river fully, but walking alongside it, sometimes at the same pace as the water, and listening to people who know it well and the birds who dwell with it, gives a sense of its essence. For us, this is essential as part of a collective endeavour to care better for rivers and water, which are a critical foundation for life. Walking with a river helped us appreciate the cycle and interconnected flow of things: for example, tasting water where it first appears through a soft bed of sphagnum moss high in the Conwy Valley, and then meeting mussel fishermen where the river meets the sea.” 

Exhibiting Artists, Somewhere-nowhere - Rob and Harriet Fraser

Sax Impey in Studio

Event details:

  • Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR

  • 24 September 2024

  • 7pm-9.30pm (Doors open at 6.30pm – early guests can enjoy Waterlines and cash bar) with Interval

    Alongside Waterlines we are pleased to share ‘Making Waves: Voices for Water’ that will raise awareness of the planet’s precious water and share our adventurous and therapeutic relationship with water. In aid of the Wilderness Foundation UK, the evening will feature an inspiring evening of speakers who, through their own experiences, will celebrate the incredible impact of water on our lives and explore how we can protect this precious resource for future generations.

    This evening continues the work started in 2019 at VOICES FOR THE WILD, which welcomed speakers such as Mike Gunton, senior executive at the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife film-making, and positive stories from young people who have seen their lives transformed through the work of the Foundation. The evening was attended by over 400 people and helped to raise over £10,000 for the Foundation.

    This year’s speakers include: 

    • Paul Rose, experienced television presenter and radio broadcaster;

    • Professor Jules Pretty, author of The Low-Carbon Good Life and Sea Sagas of the North; 

    • Mark Agnew (European Adventurer of the Year 2023) and record-breaking sea kayaker who crossed the North West Passage; 

    • Amy-Jane Beer naturalist, writer, and campaigner and author of the award-winning The Flow, Rivers, Waters, and Wilderness;

    • Dr. Helen Scales, marine biologist, writer and broadcaster, and author including the Guardian bestseller Spirals in Time and New York Times’ top summer read The Brilliant Abyss.


    Book tickets here: £15 –Eventbrite. All proceeds go towards Wilderness Foundation UK