SEA FEVER 2
21st - 28th October 2023

Four surfers, (three visual artists and a writer) joined together at Porthmeor Studios, overlooking the beach, to co-curate a reflective and speculative exhibition/event. The project gathered and entangled rich and strange flotsam and jetsam of visual forms, salvaged poetry, and sound. The creative thinking of the project rose through the sharing of surfing sensoria and ecocriticism (environmental concerns) and flowed through the exhibition to conjure future visions of the ocean.

Sea Fever was originally a surf art exhibition event at Tate St Ives for its launch programme in 1993 with the participation of Surfers Against Sewage, who were founded that year. Our project reflected back to that time of heightened consciousness and environmental activism but brought a current spirit of the abyssal fantastic to this site on Porthmeor Beach.
In conversation with surfing superhero Captain BanPlastic, Mandy Bloomfield, Andy Hughes and Ben Cook contributed drawings, photographs, video and sound work. We were delighted that Captain Ban Plastic agreed to collaborate, loaning a series of their large-scale drawings which capture their heroic moves through a toxic ocean to save the Planet!

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