Rock ’n’ roll sculpture helps save the sea. The Times 8 June 2019
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2019-06-08/news/rock-n-roll-sculpture-helps-save-the-sea-j5c2t8xt6 (accessed 09-06-2019)
I saw this article in the paper and realised there was a contrast here between what the sculptor, Emily Young, is doing with her artwork and that which I described by Damien Hirst. Young is creating artworks which she then sinks onto the seabed – and leaves them there to protect the marine environment from illegal trawling. Whereas Hirst created artworks in such a way as to simulate them having been submerged and then recovered.
The works by Young, appear to be similar to others she has created without the intention of submerging them – she has made several of “heads” and images of these are on her website (http://www.emilyyoung.com/), such as this:
While the submerged sculptures will be available to view by divers, they will be changed by the marine environment and gradually covered in encrustations and marine life. They will become part of the environment. She is quoted as saying “I use raw, uncut stone that shows its natural weathering, its billions of years of history,” this will then be enhanced by the processes it undergoes with colonisation by marine life.
She describes the work as connecting “us with the planet instead of being separated from it and in charge of it”. This artwork by its positioning is protecting the planet from the influence of humans.
Andrew Procter 