By Leon Singh
Artist Issie Martin has just completed a solo exhibition titled Futile Acts, displayed at Modern Painters, New Decorators, in Aumberry Gap, Loughborough.
The exhibition, which finished on Saturday(JAN24), explored why human attempts to control nature are ultimately futile in the face of the climate crisis.
Through moving image, drawing and print, Martin examines how bodies relate to water and eroding coastlines.
Using chalk, seaweed and salt gathered from the East Kent shoreline, she stages site-specific performances that test the boundary between body and landscape.
Documented through film and print, these poetic gestures reflect how climate grief, vulnerability and ecological forces shape our relationship with the natural world.