Coral Projects

Coral Projects is an artist-run, site-specific, eco-friendly art exhibition underwater! The motivation and urgency for the project is inspired by the rapidly deteriorating coral reef life along Jamaica's shoreline. Though this is a global issue and therefore Coral Project is a creating a golbal exhibition of eco-contemporary art in collaboration with the sea life of the world's waterways and oceans. Our first sites are Oracabessa Bay because of the milestones and community-minded work at the Oracabessa Bay Fish Sanctuary, and the Ionian Sea off the coast of Italy with the growing marine protected regions of the area.

Coral Projects is the brainchild of Vanessa Albury, to create this underwater art exhibition from a shared belief in art as a catalyst for change. The team brings together a diverse range of experience including curating, artistic practice, project management, art writing and sustainability.

The goals of Coral Projects are to support the growth of coral in the oceans where it is in decline, inspire local communities to engage with contemporary art and provide opportunities to artists to create work in a new context: under the sea!