Ode to the Oceans

On Valentine’s evening in 2022, Platform Earth, held the cultural programme ‘Ode To The Oceans’ with Superblue at The Royal Academy of Arts.

The programme brought together a coalition of artists, actors and environmental change makers, including Jude Law and Emma Corrin, the writer and poet Ben Okri, astronaut Nicole Stott and executive producer of the End of the Line, as well as artists Shezad Dawood, Marina Abramovic, Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley, Cornelia Parker, Alison Wilding and Rachel Whiteread amongst others - all to inspire support for UK marine carbon capture.

The evening saw an ocean inspired exhibition including a performance by our supporting ambassadors including Jude Law, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott and Ben Okri and music by Sam Lee, alongside immersive art by A.A Murakami and the sale of the latest series of CARBON Air Ink artist commissions by 28 leading contemporary artists. This was followed by an 80-person dinner at The Arts Club during which guests made pledges and participated in an auction. All funds raised benefited carbon sequestration through ecosystem restoration of kelp forests off the Sussex Coast.