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Oceans, art and pacific poetry

Artist Tania Kovats has created a baton just delivered to COP26. Margo Neale Ngawagurrawa curated the Songlines show, now at Plymouth. Huhana Smith works on Maori land projects.

A concrete diving suited figure apparently swimming into the gallery floor is one of the sculptures created by Tania Kovats for her current exhibition. Margo Neale Ngawagurrawa has curated the Songlines exhibition of Aborginal art and the importance of their landscape. Huhana Smith works on the Te Waituhi a Nuku project which looks at M膩ori Coastal Ecosystems and Economies and climate change. Michael Falk researches the poetry of Papua New Guinea, including Reluctant Flame by John Kaisapwalova, which was written 50 years ago. Laurence Scott hosts the conversation about our relationship with water, the land and a sense of identity.

Tania Kovats: Oceanic is on show at Parafin London until Sat 20 Nov 2021. She is Profess of Drawing at Bath Spa University and her drawings and sculptures are inspired by reading Rachel Carson鈥檚 1953 book The Sea Around Us
https://www.drawingopen.com/tania-kovats has links to projects including Te Waituhi 膩 Nuku: Drawing Ecologies: Planning for Climate Change Impacts on M膩ori Coastal Ecosystems and Economies which Huhana Smith works on.
Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters runs at the Box Plymouth until 27 February 2022 and includes the work of over 100 artists covering a landscape of 500,000 sq km.
This link has more information about the poetry discussed by Michael Falk https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-kasaipwalova

You can find a playlist on the Free Thinking programme website called Green Thinking which gathers together podcasts made for COP26 highlighting new research into ways of combatting climate change and a series of discussions with writers, artists and musicians interested in exploring nature in their work.
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Producer: Sofie Vilcins.

Image: Tania Kovats: Bleached (1), (3), (5), 2015
Specially fabricated coral and mixed media
Photographed by Peter Mallet

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