Glasgow International artist talk & screening: The Ocean’s Edge
As part of this year’s Glasgow International Open Programme, Invisible Dust presents The Ocean’s Edge; a free screening of works by Letícia Ramos (São Paulo, BR), Licida Vidal (São Paulo, BR) and Alberta Whittle (Glasgow, UK) and an in-conversation with the artists and Alice Sharp.
Date: Friday 05 June 2026
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Venue: Kelvin Hall
Category: Films and theatre, Hunterian
Does the sea surround the land, or the land the sea? The ocean has two edges: the edge from which you step out of the world you know; and the sea of possibilities, a threshold of imagination. Inspired by the pioneering environmentalist and writer Rachel Carson, Glasgow-based, Barbadian-Scottish artist Alberta Whittle, who represented Scotland at the 2022 Venice Biennale, joins Brazilian artists Letícia Ramos and Licida Vidal to screen their works and chat with Invisible Dust’s Artistic Director Alice Sharp. Uncovering the Atlantic Ocean from Scotland to Brazil weaving together poetry, decolonial ancestral knowledge, climate change and marine science.
Atlantic Ocean species including a black seadevil fish from the Porcupine Abyssal Plain, a flower coral from Barbados and leatherback turtle hatchlings from Trinidad will be displayed as part of the event, selected by Hunterian Curator of Zoology & Anatomy, Mike Rutherford, showcasing the range of The Hunterian's collections. In October, the artists saw live adult leatherback turtles, the largest of all living turtles, in a sanctuary in Ubatuba, Brazil and this forms part of the art and science interdisciplinary collaboration of ‘The Ocean’s Edge’ programme.
This Invisible Dust event is part of the British Council and Instituto Guimarães Rosa UK/Brazil Season of Culture 2025–26 with the Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh.
Partners include Cove Park, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Embassy of Brazil in London, Consulate General of Brazil in Edinburgh (UK), Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo, Bienal das Amazônias, and Universidade Federal do Pará (Brazil).
Image credit: Alberta Whittle, 'Where the tide greets memory', 2023. Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow. Photo: National Galleries of Scotland.
Venue
This event will take place in the Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre. For more details on how to get here, and venue accessibility information, visit Kelvin Hall's website.