Life With Water:
A wave of creativity
in response to the Ocean
Society of Scottish Artists
at An Tobar
Opening night Saturday 16 Aug from 6-8pm, all welcome for drinks and nibbles.
The sea is not just scenery. It is memory, myth, and movement and the source of all life.
It is the pulse beneath our islands, the force that carves our cliffs, the salt in our stories.
On the Hebridean Isle of Mull, where land and water evaporate into one another, we gather to create, to question, to reimagine.
Life With Water is a call to witness and to wonder at the depth of our love for the sea. In response to UN Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water, artists converge to explore the vast, fragile world beneath the waves.
The ocean cradles life and drowns cities. It has fed us, carried us, connected us since before humans were humans. Yet, it suffers—overfished, polluted, acidified, dissolving at the edges. What is the role of the artist in this tide of change?
Through painting, sculpture, installation, digital media, and interdisciplinary works, Life With Water invites artists to immerse themselves in imagining a different future filled with the quiet and wild poetry of the sea.
Anchored at An Tobar (Gaelic for The Well), a creative sanctuary shaped by the Atlantic, this gathering places Mull at the heart of a global conversation—where art meets urgency, where creation becomes conservation, where the sea itself is invited to speak.
30 X 30
We are pleased to also be offering an opportunity for the wider SSA Membership (Professional, Artist, Graduate, Student) to submit work to an accompanying online 30 x 30 exhibition along the same theme, of which a selection of works will be available physically in the An Tobar shop.
KEY DATES
Online Submissions open: Friday 4 April 2025, 12 noon
Online Submissions close: Monday 19 May 2025, 12 noon
Selection notification: by Friday 6 June 2025
Exhibition Dates: 18 August – 24 October 2025
Opening Night: Saturday 16 August 2025
ENTRY FEES
Professional Members
Maximum no. of submissions: 2
£FREE
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