You are invited to join artist Maria Arceo’s journey of exploration about plastic pollution entering London’s most immediate water environment: the Thames. The Thames Plastic Lab is a collaboration between King's College London's Departments of Chemistry and Geography, the Royal Society of Chemistry and Artist, Maria Arceo, supported by the Cultural Institute at King’s.

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The art project ‘Thames Plastic & the Exploration of Future Dust’ brings together King’s College London with artist Maria Arceo and a wide network of cross-disciplinary partners, to creatively inform and scientifically challenge our understanding of the widespread dispersion of plastic debris on both fluvial and marine environments. 

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With the help of Thames21 and many volunteers, Maria has collected plastic that has gathered across more than 40 locations along the Thames foreshore. Beachcombing, handpicking, identifying, and colour-coding these found objects, she eventually transforms them into a ‘building material’ that provides the viewer with a new and engaging perspective of plastic’s attributes, history, environmental impact, and value.

Please join us at Somerset House’s River Terrace between June 6 -11, and participate in an interactive art installation and science lab that will explore and visualise the nature of plastics and their impact in our environment. Please find below an invitation.

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The opening event will take place on the evening of June 5th at 6:30 pm, with the screening of A Plastic Ocean at King’s College London Strand Campus (Please RSVP or sign up on this link)