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Sea Inside

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Jun 07, 2025 - Oct 26, 2025
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Have you ever wondered what it feels like to live underwater, to be inside a shell, or even the belly of a whale?

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Featuring experimental contemporary artworks across a range of media by artists including Shuvinai Ashoona (b.1961), Marcus Coates (b.1968), Evan Ifekoya (b.1988), Laure Prouvost (b.1978) and Hiroshi Sugimoto (b.1948), Dr Sarah Wade (University of East Anglia) and Dr Pandora Syperek (Loughborough University London) have curated a unique oceanic experience that explores humanity’s interconnections, interrelationships, and immersion in oceans.

While some humans have pursued life above or under water – through seafaring, research, fishing or diving – others have been and still are subjected to the horrors of forced or desperate maritime crossings. Yet the sea has often been viewed as a mysterious ‘other’, with its expansive surface and seemingly infinite depths dominating marine imagery in the history of Western art. Conversely, artworks in this exhibition explore the ways the oceans have been domesticated, reimagined on a bodily scale and brought inside to be tamed, contained or better understood.

Sea Inside turns our oceanic gaze towards the sea’s more intimate spaces – whether physical, psychological or imaginary – and dives into shared watery origins, Indigenous ways of life and the items we remove from the sea to display on land.

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Our new Universal Ticket allows access to our entire gallery. This ticket operates on a ‘Pay If and What You Can’ basis. Upon arrival, please go to gallery reception where our universal ticket is available. No pre-booking necessary.

Sainsbury Centre
University of East Anglia
Norwich
Norfolk
NR4 7TJ
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