Conversation with our ocean: silent video projection Art installation by Ogilvie and Page - free

Elizabeth Ogilvie and Rob Page are known for environmental, ocean-focused art installations, including the Meander commission for Perth's Mill Street. Their work explores themes of climate change and nature, frequently featuring abstract imagery inspired by the environment.

The collaborating artists have produced a new immersive audio-visual installation inspired by the seminal coastline around the Solway Firth, in particular the saltmarshes that are important blue carbon sequestering ecosystems, key in regulating the climate.

At the core of this project is the knowledge that the ocean holds solutions to help tackle the climate emergency. This science has the potential for huge positive change in the world, but without the public having knowledge of its capacity, there is little motivation to act. Art by its very nature can encourage this agency and inclusion and is invaluable at communicating often complex cultural and philosophical concepts.

When most people think of the ocean, they think of only what they can see from the shore to the horizon: in Conversation with our ocean, Ogilvie and Page make the invisible visible.

The 30-minute silent video projection will accompany the announcement of the winner of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment 2025-2026 and is being organised by Professor Bill Austin of the School of Geography and Sustainable Development in association with the Scottish Oceans Institute (SOI).