Dana-Fiona Armour: Serpentine Currents
Photographs I'd seen advertising the work made it look larger and gave the impression that you could walk through it. In reality I found it a bit small for the space and as the fountains had become part of the work you couldn't walk within the work unless you were a small intrepid child. The works had lights inside which were the interactive part but in daylight these were too pale.
I was also disappointed that the interaction wasn't with the people and space around it but in response to 50 years of oceanographic data from the around the coast however without knowing what that data was and what year it represented it felt meaningless. The sculpture itself is derived from an endangered sea snake.
I am all for art which reflects scientific findings but the link needs to be more obvious. The work invited you to reflect on "the shifting ecologies which sustain life on Earth" but I'm afraid it didn't make me think these higher thoughts.
Closed 26 April 2026
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