Rise Up Residency
Margate Based artist residency focusing on Ocean conservation
“The Wake”
Mural Design and Artwork by Catherine Chinatree , Acrylic and Emulsion on Wall 2022 Photograph by Rebecca Douglas
Process and Final shots by photographer Ian Cox
About The Mural
Catherine Chinatree is a Margate-based multidisciplinary visual artist interested in the representational idea of shared reality, with a focus on identity, dualism, and cultural fluidity. Her new collaboration with British/Seychellois oceanic historian Peter Nicholls draws on and brings to life his extensive knowledge of marine culture.
Peter Nicholls is a British/Seychellois researcher, writer and creator from Margate. His work explores oceanic history and underwater cultural heritage. He has traced sunken slave ships in the Thames estuary including Thanet waters, exploring their meanings as sacred underwater sites.
Their mural will give reference to the wake – a lasting trail of turbulence and a realm of consciousness first set in motion by the slave ships that began to move across (and to the bottom of) the oceans. Christina Sharpe writes that the ‘residence time’ – or time spent in the ocean – for ancestors who were thrown, (or jumped) from these ships is 260 million years. Until then, we will feel the salt that belonged to their bodies as part of the oceans’ salinity, always with us as we also exist in the wake.
Artist Collaboration Portrait of Catherine Chinatree and Peter A Nichols by Zoe Law