Anne Krinsky: Wetlands Shifting Shorelines, Outdoors on the Worthing Seafront

Venue: Worthing Seafront Gallery
Starts: Sunday, November 14, 2021
Ends: Thursday, April 28, 2022
Address: Worthing Seafront Promenade (next to Worthing Lido)
Location: East England
Organiser: Worthing Borough Council

Anne Krinsky: Wetlands / Shifting Shorelines is a print exhibition inspired by vulnerable South Coast wetlands the artist photographed in 2020 and 2021. She worked with projection, photography and digital print to design this striking series of prints on dibond aluminium panels. It is part of her larger project about fragile wetlands and climate change in a range of river and coastal locations.

For this exhibition, Anne Krinsky explored wetlands on the South Coast, including Lymington and Keyhaven in The North Solent, Chichester, Pagham and Portsmouth Harbours and the Adur Estuary. The show brings together her creative response to the beauty of coastal wetlands and also highlights South Coast projects to preserve essential coastal habitats.

The artist says, “I wanted to share my passion for coastal wetlands before they vanish. These tidal habitats are threatened by rising sea levels and pollution. It’s heartbreaking to see the overgrowth of algae – resulting from agricultural runoff and dumping of sewage – that is engulfing South Coast wetlands. I am inspired by scientists and community groups working to protect and restore coastal ecosystems and wanted to bring attention to some of their work. I have included information panels about Bird Aware Solent, the Solent Oyster Restoration Project and the Sussex Kelp Restoration Project.”

The Seafront Gallery features five stone-filled gabion plinths that hold weatherproof artworks, in a prime location on Worthing’s accessible beachside promenade. Anne Krinsky’s images are designed and configured specifically for the Gabion’s architecture.

Anne Krinsky: Wetlands / Shifting Shorelines will be in situ for six months from late October 2021 through late April 2022. It will lead up to – and run in tandem with – the artist’s exhibition Anne Krinsky: Fugitive, at the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, on view from 5 February – 1 May 2022.

More Images: https://www.annekrinsky.com/#/wetlands-shifting-shorelines/

Anne Krinsky

Anne Krinsky is a London-based artist, born in the US. She works with paint, print, photography and video. Research underpins her practice and she has made installations in response to archived collections in the US, UK and India. She exhibited her first project with a UK archive, From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women’s Art Library, at Goldsmiths University of London, in 2015. The artist’s multi-year project, Tide Line Thames, investigated the river and its architectural structures between high and low tide lines, for London’s Totally Thames. Tide Line Thames culminated in 2017 with a video installation in the Brunel Museum Thames Tunnel Shaft and with Tropical Thames, a digital print installation commissioned by Canary Wharf Arts in Crossrail Place Roof Garden. The artist says, “Watching the Thames erode metal, wood and stone, led me to think about coastal communities and intertidal habitats at risk from climate change-induced sea level rise. Since 2018, I have been working on an international project about vulnerable wetlands and climate change.” Her current research on fragile South Coast wetlands culminates in two exhibitions in Worthing. Anne Krinsky: Wetlands / Shifting Shorelines, an outdoor exhibition on the Worthing Seafront Promenade, is on view from 29 October 2021 through late April 2022. It leads up to – and will run in tandem with her exhibition, Anne Krinsky: Fugitive, at the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, on view from 5 February - 1 May 2022. Anne Krinsky is the recipient of several grants, including an Artists International Development Fund Grant, two Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England and an a-n Artist Bursary. The British Museum, Boston Public Library, American collector Graham Gund and U.K. charity, Paintings in Hospitals, have purchased her works, as have numerous corporate and private collectors on both sides of the Atlantic. She has been awarded residencies at METAL, Chalkwell, UK; Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain; Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY; Sanskriti Foundation, Delhi, India; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA; and Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany, among others. www.annekrinsky.com